Stourport Power Station

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Two CEGB steam locomotives at the power station circa 1968. The small shed can just be seen behind the second engine.

Stourport Power Station was built by the Shropshire & Worcestershire Electric Power Co., and opened in June 1927 by the Prime Minister, and MP for Bewdley, Stanley Baldwin. Unusually the power station did not have the customary cooling towers, drawing cooling water directly from the adjacent River Severn and River Stour.

Coal was initially delivered via the River Severn or the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal (which passes under the SVRSevern Valley Railway at Falling Sands Viaduct). A branch line from Stourport station along the embankment was constructed in 1940 so that coal could be brought in directly by rail.
Stourport Power Station was one of the major consumers of coal from Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway

The power station closed in 1984 and has since been demolished, with the area now mainly being a housing estate.

Stourport Power Station from the air in 1948. The exchange sidings are in the top left, with the coal drops in the middle of the image. Note the smoke stacks are painted in camouflage colours. Image from Britain from Above

Links

Unlocking Stourport's Past (Power Station page)

See also

Stourport
Pre-1963 map