Castle Meads Power Station

Castle Meads Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on Alney Island in the River Severn at Gloucester.

Construction of the station began in 1940, and it was opened in December 1942. It was built to replace the electricity supply from Gloucester Corporation's works on Commercial Road. Castle Meads was one of two 'war emergency' stations intended to spread the risk due to war damage. The other station was at Earley near Reading. Castle Meads comprised two 20 MW British Thomson-Houston turbo-alternator sets, the first was commissioned in December 1942 just two years after work started on the site. These were powered by steam from five Yarrow boilers each producing 100,000 pounds per hour of steam at 425 psi and 825 °F . There was also a 75 kW diesel engine set. When the electricity industry was nationalised in 1948 and the passed to the British Electricity Authority and later the Central Electricity Generating Board.

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