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Plymouth 'B' Power Station

From Graces Guide

1952 Construction started

1956 A contract for two ...00,000 kw turbo generators for Plymouth power station has been placed with British Thomson Houston Co., by the Central Electricity Authority.[1]

1960 The second 60 megawatt hydrogen-cooled alternator ever to be completely built at the Larne turbine works of A.E.I. was shipped from Belfast[2]

1981 Closed.

1990 Demolished[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Leicester Evening Mail 11 January 1956
  2. ↑ Larne Times 17 March 1960
  3. ↑ Western Evening Herald 25 September 1990
  • [1] Derelict places
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