of Leeds
1893 The station was built, owned and operated by the Yorkshire House-to-House Electricity Company Limited.
1898 Leeds Corporation took over the electricity undertaking. The station was equipped with compound and vertical condensing engines coupled directly and by ropes to Lowrie-Parker and Hall dynamos, and Ferranti and ECC alternators.
1903/4 McLarens supplied a pair of 3000 i.h.p. vertical triple-expansion engines for Leeds Corporation’s Whitehall Road Power Station.
1904 A Belliss and Morcom a 2000 hp triple expansion engine was supplied to the Leeds Corporation Electricity Works.
The power station was redeveloped several times to meet increasing demand for electricity.
By 1923 the capacity of the station was 51 MW
The station generated electricity until and after the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948.
Late 1960s the station was closed.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia