Sunderland Power Station

At opening the station was equipped with five Clayton Lancashire boilers these fed steam to Shortly after opening the above was supplemented with two 700 kW sets. In 1904 the station contained eight Belliss and Morcom engines; five coupled to continuous current Silvertown dynamos, aggregating 1,280 kW and three sets coupled to three-phase alternators by the Electrical Co with a total output of 2,260 kW making 3,530 kW in aggregate. In 1923 the plant comprised six 750 kW reciprocating machines, and 1 × 2,000 kW, 1 × 5,000 kW and 1 × 6,000 kW turbo-alternators, a total generating capacity of 17,500 kW. These were supplied from boilers with a total output of 326,000 pounds per hour (41.1 kg/s)…