Neepsend & Tinsley power stations.

[Justin Smith 10]

Could anyone supply the opening dates/closing dates (plus their MW outputs) for Neepsend power station and Tinsley power station ?

 

Also would anyone know the opening date of Sheffield/Crosspool TV transmitter ?

 

Thanks

[retep 68]

Neepsend Power Station

building started 1902 opened 1904 on the site of the Old Brickworks

closed 1976

[Falls 10]

I think Neepsend had two 22 Mw BTH turbo-alternator sets and two 33Mw Metro-Vick.

 

Best to check with someone who worked there

 

Falls

[Rod Eaton 10]

I worked at Neepsend Power Station in the early seventies. The official output was 160 MWs although boiler limitations prevented us generating more than about 130 MWs. There were 2 X 30 MW and 2 X 50 MW turbo-alternators. There was a mix of travelling grate and chain grate boilers (10 or 11 in total from memory). The travelling grate boiler auxiliaries were supplied with DC power from Ward-Leonard motor-generators for variable control of grate speed, fans, pumps etc without gearboxes. That's off the top of my head.

[supersonic 11]

Some great old pics of the Neepsend and Blackburn Meadows (Tinsley) power stations here:

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/database_search.php

 

Blackburn Meadows was opened in 1921, was expanded in the 30's, and was dismantled in the 70's. IIRC its maxiumum capacity was 300MW.

 

Crosspool transmitting station opened in 1967.

[borick 10]

I was back in Tinsley last September (after many years) and had the pleasure of taking a stroll on the canal towpath, where I took this photo.

 

http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x211/borick/?action=view&current=EnglandTourSept2007-236.jpg

 

From here you can actually see how close the towers are to the Motorway.

[supersonic 11]

16m at the closest point I believe - hence the problems in demolishing them.

[old tup 30]

On ‎6‎/‎14‎/‎2008 at 9:46 PM, Rod Eaton said:

I worked at Neepsend Power Station in the early seventies. The official output was 160 MWs although boiler limitations prevented us generating more than about 130 MWs. There were 2 X 30 MW and 2 X 50 MW turbo-alternators. There was a mix of travelling grate and chain grate boilers (10 or 11 in total from memory). The travelling grate boiler auxiliaries were supplied with DC power from Ward-Leonard motor-generators for variable control of grate speed, fans, pumps etc without gearboxes. That's off the top of my head.

Hi Rod I know this is a long shot but do you recall the joiners shop at the bottom of the stairway to the canteen?,my father was the foreman joiner there known as "Joiner Ben"his mate was called Ernest!.You may have worked there after our old boy retired although he worked up to his 70th birthday!,our family lived in the cottage across the River Don on the bend at the bottom of Liversey Street where Sheffield College stands now!.My younger brother worked in the boiler room for a while mostly on nights which suited him because he could sleep through a lot of his shift the lazy get!.