Wallsend, Carville A & B Generating Stations

HER Number:
1912

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Carville A & B Generating Stations

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Electricity Production Site

Site Type: Specific:
Power Station

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Carville Power Station was built to provide a larger electricity supply than its forerunner, Neptune Bank (HER ref. 5106), principally to power the electrified NER line from Newcastle to Tynemouth. Carville opened in 1903 using the largest turbines in commercial use at the time. It was eventually enlarged and augmented by the building of Carville B in 1916. Principal buildings included an administrative block, electricity sub-station, perimeter wall, power hall, railway siding and switch house. The power stations form part of Wallsend's docklands landscape and are in continuing use for electricity generation. Much of site layout is identifiable. The engine house of the original station survives, but not the boiler house.

Easting:
3016

Northing:
6611

Grid Reference:
NZ30166611

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1912 >> English Heritage, 2001, Monuments Protection Program, Step 4 reports - Electric Power Generation Industry I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 70