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Avon Bridge Power Station: misc_abps154

View of the Power Station's first overhead electric locomotive on the private standard gauge siding which ran from the exchange sidings to the Avon Bridge power station. In the background can be seen the original power station arrangement and the first coal hoist. Locomotive No 1 was a standard gauge Overhead Wire electric powered 0-2-2-0 locomotive (works serial no 513) manufactured in 1921 by the British Thomson Houston Co Ltd at their Glebe Farm Works in Rugby. The overhead wire equipment was supplied by the electrical contractors; Brecknell, Munro and Rogers of Bristol and this photograph was taken from one of their advertisements.

Robert Ferris

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