Industrial Railways

Nechells Power Station: nechells111

A panoramic view of the Nechells Princes Power Station Site and its various components. From left to right are; five rows of wooden cooling towers, turbine hall (where the electricity is generated) and boiler house (with fifteen chimneys), Telpher installation and coal unloading dock, Birmingham & Warwick canal. The line to the Midlands Railway is in the foreground congested with an assortment of wagons and a rail steam crane.

Robert Ferris

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