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Originally Posted by whitebirk
I worked at the Power Station from 1950 until I left in 1967. It had 12 Simon Carves chain grate boilers, one 30 Mw and three 40Mw turbo generators.. The coal weas delivered by barge and rail, coming from Bank Hall Collery, Burnley and Bickershaw Collery in the Wigan area.
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Must have been there same time ('62-'66), control room & efficiency office, can lay claim to stealing 6,000 tons of coal during that time, at least it wasn't there when they shut it down and did the final stocktake.
Parker was the super followed by Keogh. Harry Mitchel deputy and John Prentice ops super. I went to Fleetwood, Roy Ashworth went to Wylfa.
Other names spring to mind, Alan Kershaw, Charlie Small, Sid Carr,Bill Heys.
The plant was built in two halves, turbines 3 & 4 with boilers 10 to 15 then after the war 5 & 6 with 16 to 20.
T/A 6 was connected to the 132 Kv Grid the rest to the Blackburn area network and another Grid connection. At a good push it could send out 150Mw but not for long.