Lots Road Power Station

[Braveheart1984]

Love the photo's Zero!

 

[chelle]

I always thought Lightboys exploits were the most exciting to read/see but this is also pure class...the old pics too are priceless...look after them.It looks like a Parsons set in one of them too.Many thanxxx for an excellant report.

 

[Bad wolf]

Complete class!!

 

[mr_bones]

Colossal! Truly amazing report

 

[sam1990]

Hi,

Did anyone get any photos of any boilers?

Also, does anyone know why it was converted again in the 70s?

Thanks

 

[Reaperman]

Hi,

Did anyone get any photos of any boilers?

Also, does anyone know why it was converted again in the 70s?

Thanks

I suspect its directly related to the oil crisis of 1973. OPEC the oil Cartel decided to cut off oil supplies to the west as payback for the support of Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Overnight the price of oil skyrocketed. In the UK this combined with industrial action in the coal industry which led to Power cuts.

Given the importance of Lots road as a supplier of power to the capitals transport grid it was important to maintain a stable fuel supply and at the time oil was not a good choice to run the capital on.

The 1973 crisis resulted in a major rethink about how we supplied our energy needs. Security of supply was suddenly an important factor. From this period a number of interesting projects began to develop such as the "plan for coal" (investement in coalfields, modernisation, development of new mines, technologys etc.) There was a knock on effect for other developments such as north sea oil and gas, though these did not really come on stream in force untill the 1980's.

RM