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Report - Controlroom Barking Power Plant - London - May 2024

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tomvandutch

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There were coal-fired power plants A, B and C here. These stopped operating in 1981 and have all since been demolished.

The gas power plant was built a little further south, on the river, in the 1990s.
The story began in 1897 when the town built its first small coal-fired power station.
In 1920, an application was made for a larger power plant, which had an output of 200 MW and could be expanded to up to 600 MW. In 1925 it was inaugurated by King George V. In 1950, some of the steam boilers were scrapped and the steam was obtained via a pipeline from power plant B. In 1964, operations were switched to oil fire before power plant A was decommissioned in 1969.

In 1939 the expansion took place with power plant B, which had a capacity of 303 MW. There were 16 steam boilers here, which were located in two boiler houses with 8 boilers each. In 1976 this part of the power plant was also closed. At this point the output was still 144 MW.
In 1954, part C of the power plant was completed. There were 6 steam boilers and 3 75MW generators. In 1960 the conversion to oil fires took place here. In 1980 this power plant was also shut down.

A little further east, a gas power plant with an output of 1000 MW was built between 1993 and 1995. In 2018, operations were also discontinued here.
All four power plants have now been demolished.

The substation on the opposite side has also now been demolished.
The control room was built in 1925 and controlled power plants A and B.
For location C, he only took on monitoring functions.
The control room is now a listed building.

There is still an old German Air Force map from 1939 in which the power plant is listed as a target.
On my homepage, the last picture (unfortunately very small) shows the control room when it was still in operation.

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ekto

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Nice. It's literally not changed an inch it's been easy 10 years since I was in here. There's a room under the control room there's a small square man hole in the corner left of you as you come in the main door. The other powerstatian is buttoned up now. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get to the sub level tunnels in there
 

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