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Post by Les on Dec 7, 2017 15:23:17 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well: My lifelong career in the electricity generating industry began, after basic training, at Maidstone A & B Power Stations owned then by the CEGB in Fairmeadow. (These days I think its covered by a road). The A 'Station supplied power for the trolley buses from rotary converters and had a magnificent stand-by reciprocating triple expansion steam engine driving a DC generator. The B 'Station had three chain grate coal fired boilers that supplied a steam to one 5MW and one 7MW Brush Lungstrom steam turbine generators. Cooling water came from the river medway as did the coal which was delivered by barge. It had a happy staff, always the way in small 'Stations. The most chellenging period was the winter of 1963 when we had to shut the 'Station down because the river Medway froze over and cooling water supplies were lost for several days. The 'Station was "twinned" with Gravesend Power Station, each having the same Manager.
Hi Keith do you remember my father Albert (Jim) Capo
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Post by Les on Jul 3, 2023 19:57:43 GMT
I think part of it is still there between the disused toilets and St Peter's Bridge
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