Re: White Bay power station and Menangle Milk siding

["Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au>]

If you look from Victoria road you can see the letters NSWR&T (or something
like that) over a doorway on the power station. NSW railway and tram dept?

>From memory when I was working for the Electricity Commission of NSW those
generators were brought in during the late 1970's early 1980's.

I think they are gas turbine generators, imported with a great deal of fuss
and hurry as Neville Wran was in the shit, and I believe they have been
since trucked up to Broken Hill. To bring this post back on topic he was a
politician who knew there were votes in building trains, something a most of
the politicians these days have forgotten. Apart for that he and his mates
were pretty useless.


Chris

"Ken Kirkby" <ken@terrigal.net.au> wrote in message
3A61978A.1D61@terrigal.net.au">news:3A61978A.1D61@terrigal.net.au...
> Philip Shortus wrote:
> >
> > Hey, I have two questions although one is doesn't have really anything
too
> > do with the railways
> >
> > 1) I was at White Bay the other day and saw the power station, does
anybody
> > know when it was closed and decommisioned? I heard it was once used to
> > supply power too the trains?
> >
> > 2) I was looking at a train book the other day and I saw a photo of 3802
at
> > Menangle Milk siding in 1965, can anyone tell me where this siding was,
when
> > it was closed and is there anything left?
> >
> > Thanks for all your help
> > Bye
> > Mark Shortus
>
> Im not sure when it ceased burning coal, but there are two large gas
> fired gas-turbines
> (DC10 engines from memory) which feed to the twin stacks on the Balmain
> side. They in
> those container like housings.
>
> These, along with similar units at Eraring formed an emergency
> generation system. The
> Eraring units were certainly on standby five years ago and may still be,
> along with the
> White Bay turbines.
>
> The coal fired generators would have been quite small only 5-10mw, being
> of a similar
> age to those at Pyrmont and Bunnerong.
> --
>                          Ken Kirkby