Gravesend Power Station
1902-3 Built by the Gravesend Corporation to supply the local demand for electricity for lighting. It was built to the west of the municipal gas works, south east of the basin on the Thames and Medway canal.
In 1903 the generating plant consisted of three 200-kw. sets, and had reached 13,400 kw. in 1928, when the most recent additions were a 5,000-kw. turbo-alternator, together with two 40,000 lb. boilers and auxiliary equipment. To begin with, a certain amount of steam utilised was raised from refuse destruction, but that arrangement had been abandoned. The new set was manufactured by BTH of Rugby, and was supplied with steam at a pressure of 200 psi, 362 deg. F. The speed was 3,000 rpm, and the overload capacity 25 per cent. The latest steam-raising plant consisted of two Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers, each evaporating 40,000 lb. per hour, and equipped with mechanical stokers, economisers, superheaters and air heaters. [1]
1970 The power station closed. The CEGB converted the buildings for use as a scientific research base. This use ceased in 1993
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- [1] Wikipedia