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Description: | Lots Road Power Station in Chelsea was built in 1902-05 as a traction-generating station. Its original eight 5,500 kilowatt turbo generators were built by British Westinghouse.
This gaunt monster with its four massive chimneys was filled with the most up-to-date machinery and electrical technology of the age.
Although Lots Road was built by Yerkes to power the District line, it was powerful enough to run several lines, anticipating Yerkes' ambition to unite the Underground network.
Lots Road soon powered the Underground Electric Railways of London, the basis of the modern Underground system (the Bakerloo, Piccadilly, District and Northern lines). The power station was also used to some extent by the London United Tramways trams.
The station was ideally situated near the Thames, with a 335-metre frontage onto Chelsea Creek. Coal barges bringing fuel to the power station could be unloaded in a specially made tidal basin. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 1 Jun 1923 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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