{{Short description|Coal plant in England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}} {{Use British English|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox power station | name = Barton Power Station | ps_chimneys = 2 | ps_cooling_source = Canal water | ps_annual_generation = 72.15 GWh (1972) | extra = {{gbmapping|SJ768974}} }}
'''Barton Power Station''' was a coal-fired power station on the Bridgewater Canal in Trafford Park, near Eccles, Lancashire, England.
==History== The construction of the station began in 1920 and operation began in 1923. The station's original equipment consisted of three Metropolitan-Vickers 27.5 MW turbo-alternators, nine Babcock & Wilcox chain-grate stoked boilers, Mather & Platt auxiliary equipment and British Thomson-Houston switchgear. The station supplied electricity to an area of 3,100 square kilometers and was one of the most advanced power stations of the time.<ref name=barton /><ref name=manchester>{{cite web |url=http://www.msim.org.uk/media/33871617/powerstationsingreatermanchester.pdf |title=Power Stations in Greater Manchester |access-date=2008-11-22 |year=2001 |work=msim.org.uk |pages=1–2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327154716/http://www.mosi.org.uk/media/33871617/powerstationsingreatermanchester.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref> Coal was delivered to the station in barges, using the Bridgewater Canal.<ref name=barton /> Steam condensing and cooling was by water abstracted from the canal.
The station was extended in 1928 with the addition of a three new Babcock & Willcox boilers at 130,000Ib/hr. One of the boilers uses pulverised fuel the others uses conventional graters. This powers a Metropolitan-Vickers a 40 MW 6,600-volt turbo alternator with a 1 MW house set on the same shaft. <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_engineer_1928-11-30_146_3803/page/600/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Engineer 1928-11-30: Vol 146 Iss 3803 |date=1928-11-30 |others=Internet Archive |language=English}}</ref>
This bought the installed capacity up to 122.5 MW.
in 1938 a further extension was made with a Metropolitan Vickers 50 MW set wound for 33,000 Volts and fed by two 200,000 Ib/hr boilers. <ref name="electricity_manchester">{{cite book|last=Frost|first=Roy|author2=Neil Richardson|title=Electricity in Manchester 1893-1993|year=1993|isbn=1-85216-075-6}}</ref><ref>Electricity Commission, ''Generation of Electricity in Great Britain year ended 31st December 1946''. London: HMSO, 1947.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_engineer_1938-02-04_165_supplement |title=The Engineer 1938-02-04: Vol 165 Supplement |date=1938-02-04 |others=Internet Archive |language=English}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+Station electricity output 1946–63, GWh !Year !1946 !1955 !1956 !1957 !1958 !1959 !1961 !1962 !1963 !1967 |- !Output, GWh |490.7 |273.5 |228.75 |224.05 |188.44 |341.51 |127.5 |67.9 |114.8 |191.2 |} In 1972 it had one 39 MW operational set and one 51.5 MW set. Thee boilers delivered 770,000 lb/h (97 kg/s) of steam at 350 psi (24.1 bar) and 371/441 °C. In that year the station sent out 72.149 GWh, the load factor was 11.9 per cent and the thermal efficiency was 17.86 per cent.<ref>{{Cite book|last=CEGB|title=CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1972|publisher=CEGB|year=1972|location=London|pages=17}}</ref>
The station was closed on 18 March 1974 with a reduced generating capacity of 69 MW. At the time the station was co-firing oil.<ref name="closure">{{cite web |author = Mr. Redmond |title = Coal-fired Power Stations |url = https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1984/jan/16/coal-fired-power-stations#S6CV0052P0_19840116_CWA_281 |work = Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) |date = 16 January 1984 |access-date = 1 September 2009 }}</ref> The station was then demolished in 1978 and 1979.<ref name="barton" /> The first chimney was demolished in June 1979.<ref name="chimney">{{cite web |url=http://www.trafford.gov.uk/content/tca/display_image.asp?ImageID=144 |title=Barton Power Station |access-date=2008-11-22 |date=June 1979 |work=trafford.gov.uk }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A B&Q store now stands on the site of the station.<ref name="barton">{{cite web| url= http://citynoise.org/article/6063| title= Barton Power Station| access-date= 2008-11-22| author= Dave| date= 2 January 2007| work= citynoise.org| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081220000652/http://citynoise.org/article/6063| archive-date= 20 December 2008| url-status= dead| df= dmy-all}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|England|Energy}} * Timeline of the UK electricity supply industry * List of power stations in England * List of pre-nationalisation UK electric power companies * National Grid (UK) * Stuart Street power station
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==External links== * [http://www.atypon-link.com/doi/pdf/10.1680/ijoti.1936.14884 "Reinforced-Concrete Chimney Towers at the Barton Power-Station." By ARNOLD ATHERTON BSc.]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:Coal-fired power stations in England Category:Power stations in North West England Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Greater Manchester Category:Eccles, Greater Manchester Category:Demolished power stations in the United Kingdom