1912] on Ehi'tricity Supply : Past, Present and Future. 4-41 



either from exhaust steam that has already done work in blowin-,' or 

 other engines, or by steam raised by blast-furnace gas, or from the 

 waste heat and gas from coke ovens. 



Excepting in the old original power station at Neptune Bank, 

 where power supply was inaugurated by Lord Kelvin in June 1901, 

 and where there are still some reciprocating engines, the whole of 

 the works are equipped with alternators driven by steam turbines, 

 mostly of the Parsons type, supplying ri-phase 40-cycle current at 

 voltages varying from 3000 to 12,000. The power is supplied to all 

 the leading ma^ulfacturers for every kind of purpose, and also to 

 the railway from Newcastle to the sea, which has been electrified. 



H.P. H.P. 



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 19U,00U 

 180.TOO 



no.ooo 



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 lon.fioo 



90.000 

 60,000 

 70.000 

 60.000 

 iO.OOO 

 40.000 



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1903 Id04 1906 I90e 



Fig. 8. 



Fig. 6 gives the interior of the Company's principal power station 

 at Carville, where 52,000 horse-power of turbine plant is installed, 

 and Fig. 7 an exterior view of the works with the s.s. " Mauretania " 

 lying at an adjacent quay. 



Fig. 8 shows that altogether the total horse-power connected 

 amounts to nearly 200,000, and clearly indicates how this large 

 amount is split up amongst the various industries that are supplied. 



It is obvious that an undertaking of these vast dimensions, covering 

 as it does large portions of two counties, and several large towns and 

 industrial centres, could never have been undertaken by a single munici- 

 pality. It is equally obvious that it could never have succeeded as 

 well as it has had Newcastle itself, which has been from the first 

 the nucleus of the undertaking, been cut out of the area of supply. 



