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Salford Power Station?
editI know there was one, and I think this (free-to-upload) image is something to do with it. :S --Jza84 | Talk 00:32, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Links to other regional powerstation navboxes
editI think it would be useful for all the regional power station navigation templates to link to each other. To keep discussion in one place, please comment at Template talk:South East powerstations#Links to other regional powerstation navboxes rather than here. Thryduulf (talk) 21:44, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Bloom Street
editSee pictures of Bloom Street power station in WM Commons.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 18:30, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
There is information about Manchester's four power stations in McKechnie, H. M., ed. Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. Manchester: University Press; p. 27:
- Electric Lighting Provisional Order acquired in 1890
- Electricity was first supplied to the central area of the city from the Dickinson Street power station in 1893, chiefly for lighting
- The site of Bloom Street station was acquired in 1896 so that electricity could be supplied for the operation of electric tramways
- Electricity was first supplied from Bloom Street in 1901 (both Dickinson Street and Bloom Street are on the Rochdale canal and depended on it for supplies of coal and condensing water; the combined installed capacity was 14,000 KW and they were operated on the continuous current low tension system with a generating voltage of 420 - 550 V)
- For Stuart Street Power Station see that article; for Barton Power Station see that article; the land for the Barton station had already been acquired in 1915 as a much greater need for electricity had been foreseen; its installed plant capacity would be 160,000 KW while that of Stuart Street was 60,000 KW.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:16, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
- More information about the Bloom Street station is in Hartwell, Clare (2001) Manchester. (Pevsner Architectural Guides.) London: Penguin ISBN 0-14-071131-7; pp. 210-11 (section "Winser Street"): "large octagonal chimney is a local landmark"; "one of the earliest combined heat and poeter stations in the country"--Johnsoniensis (talk) 09:51, 6 June 2020 (UTC)