Braehead Power Station
Location type
WorksName and dates
Braehead Power Station (1946-1982)Served by the Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway.
Description
This was a coal fired power station, later converted to burn oil. It was on the north side of King's Inch Road and served from the east by sidings from the Clyde Navigation Trust's Renfrew Harbour siding of the Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway. Trains entering the power station crossed the road on the level.
To the south was the Braehead Transit depot and to the east the Braehead Works.
A conveyor connected the sidings to the power station.
Latterly the site received oil from Grangemouth.
The concrete shell of the building survived until the 1990s.
Local
The site is now part of the Braehead Shopping Centre .
Tags
Power stationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
