Fiddlers Ferry quality video

Blink and you miss it

Fast forward to 1.50

"At its peak, the coal-fired power station was capable of producing enough electricity to power around two million homes"
From Granada reports

I wonder how much coal it burned to power two million homes.

I know that in its day, it was supplied by the 'merry-go-round' trains from Bickershaw, and had also played its part in keeping the Woodhead tunnel open beyond ceasing of passenger services, when coaled from Yorkshire mines.

I guess it outlasted its neighbours in part because of being better positioned to burn imported fuel.

At maximum capacity about 11 tons of coal a minute.

When were they built?

It opened in 1971

Posted by: Stardelta (11598)

At maximum capacity about 11 tons of coal a minute.

Replied: 3rd Dec 2023 at 16:21


16,000 tons a day that's an awful lot of coal.

Indeed, and when you consider there were at one point about 20 coal fired stations of similar capacity operating in the uk the figure becomes even more impressive.

Pity they couldn't have been converted into some buildings for the local community.. I'm sure I saw something a couple of years ago, where some similar cooling towers had been converted???

BBC

I believe they used one as a torture chamber in 'Brazil'.

Posted by: admin (1575)
Pity they couldn't have been converted into some buildings for the local community.. I'm sure I saw something a couple of years ago, where some similar cooling towers had been converted???

Replied: 3rd Dec 2023 at 20:49

Was it not a water tower

LINK