Stuart Street Power Station
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 Location of Stuart Street Power Station
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| Country | England |
| Location | Greater Manchester, North West England |
| Coordinates | 53°29′09″N 2°11′34″W / 53.485760°N 2.192858°WCoordinates: 53°29′09″N 2°11′34″W / 53.485760°N 2.192858°W |
| Commission date | 1900 |
| Decommission date | 1975 |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal-fired |
| Power generation | |
| Nameplate capacity | 175MW |
| grid reference SJ873988 | |
Stuart Street Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated at Bradford, Greater Manchester in North West England.
The station was built in 1900, and equipped with six Yates and Thom, 2,500hp steam engines, each engine driving an Electrical Co. Ltd, 1,500 kW, three-phase alternator, giving an output of 6,500V at 50 Hz. Babcock & Wilcox supplied 24 boilers fitted with mechanical stokers. In 1904, two Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, 6000 hp, marine triple-expansion steam engines were installed, each driving a 3,750 kW, 6,500V, three-phase flywheel alternator. Twelve extra boilers by Babcock & Wilcox were installed to drive the new engines. The plant's first turbine-driven generator was installed in 1907.
In 1920, the power station was, with Liverpool Docks, a target for an IRA plot involving its destruction. The plot was foiled when documents were captured and published.
In 1934, a modernisation programme began which involved practically rebuilding the whole of the site. Metropolitan-Vickers supplied the turbo-alternators, three 30,000 kW and one 25,000 kW. John Thompson Ltd supplied twelve new boilers. Four new concrete cooling towers were also built. Ferguson, Pailin & Co. were awarded the contract for the new switchgear. The work had to be carried out in stages over the following decade so that the plant could be kept running.
After the Second World War, an additional Metropolitan-Vickers, 60,000 kW turbo-alternator, generating at 33,000V was installed along with two large John Thompson boilers. The new boilers were amongst the largest that had hitherto been constructed in the UK and had to be housed in a new building along with the electrostatic precipitators that removed particulates from the flue gases. A new chimney and an additional cooling tower also had to be built for the new boilers.
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