Industrial Railways

Nechells Power Station: nechells108

Construction of the coal unloading area outside Nechells Princes Power Station showing the large Telpher installation for unloading canal barges and the rail coal tipping facilities in the distance. The extent of the equipment here gives some idea of the amount of coal required by the power station. In 1933 the City of Birmingham Electricity Supply Department purchased almost 400,000 tons of rail transported slack coal from various collieries and coal factors. This was split between the Power Stations at Nechells and Hams Hall (the other Power Stations were canal feed). As coal wagons typically carried 10 tons each, this amounts to over 100 wagons to be unloaded every day.

Robert Ferris

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