| 词条 | Castle Donington Power Station |
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| name = Castle Donington Power Station | image = Castle Donington Power Station.jpg | image_caption = Castle Donington Power Station | location_map = Leicestershire | coordinates = {{coord|52.847769|-1.358511|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | country = England | location = Leicestershire, East Midlands | operator = Central Electricity Generating Board (1958-1990) Powergen (1990-1995) | th_fuel_primary = Coal | ps_electrical_capacity = 600MW | commissioned = 1958 | decommissioned = 1995 | extra = {{gbmapping|SK433280}} }}Castle Donington Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on the River Trent near Castle Donington, Leicestershire, {{convert|5|mi}} south-east of Derby. Construction began in 1951, and the station opened in 1958.[1] The station had six 100 megawatt turbo-generators manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers and boilers by Babcock & Wilcox. It was initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. Following privatisation in 1990, the station was operated by Powergen. In 1993, four of the station's generating units were decommissioned. In 1994, the remaining two units were taken out of operation and the station closed down.[2] Castle Donington power station was supplied with coal via a branch off the adjacent Trent and Weston railway line. Rail facilities included an east-facing junction on the mainline, four loading arrival sidings, a gross-weight weighbridge, a four-track set of unloading hoppers, a tare-weight weighbridge, and four empty departure sidings.[3] The cooling water system enabled the abstraction of up to 113,700 m3/h (25 million gallons per hour) of water from the River Trent. There was provision for up to 81,800 m3/h (18 million gallons per hour to be pumped from the outlet channel through cooling towers back to the inlet channel for reuse.[4] The power station's internal railway system had the last steam locomotives in regular industrial usage in Great Britain.[5] The locos went into preservation upon the power station's closure with No. 1 now on the Midland Railway in Derbyshire. The power station has since been demolished and a distribution centre for Marks & Spencer has been developed on the site. References1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.nwleics.gov.uk/files/documents/castle_donington_conservation_area_appraisal_and_study/Castle%20Donington%20Conservation%20Area%20Appraisal%20and%20Study.pdf | title=Castle Donington Conservation Area Appraisal and Study | publisher=North West Leicestershire District Council | accessdate=2008-03-04}} {{Portal|England|Energy}}{{Trentvalleypowerstations|upstream=Willington Power Station|downstream=Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station}}{{East Midlands powerstations}}{{Leicestershire-struct-stub}}{{UK-powerstation-stub}}2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalgrid.com/UK/library/documents/sys_03/dddownloaddisplay.asp?sp=sys_Table3_7 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121205023032/http://www.nationalgrid.com/UK/library/documents/sys_03/dddownloaddisplay.asp?sp=sys_Table3_7 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=5 December 2012 |title=Generation disconnections since 1991 |accessdate=5 October 2008 |year=2003 |work=nationalgrid.com/ }} 3. ^{{Cite book|title=London Midland Region Track Diagrams|last=Jacobs|first=Gerald|publisher=Quail|year=1990|isbn=0900609745|location=Exeter|pages=6C}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=Power in Trust|last=Sheail|first=John|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1991|isbn=0-19-854673-4|location=Oxford|pages=65}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=The train now departing, Castle Donington power station 1988 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzG4JBPBNI4 |website=You Tube |accessdate=30 July 2018}} 2 : Buildings and structures in Leicestershire|Power stations in the East Midlands |
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