Sunderland Power Station

Sunderland Power Station
Location of Sunderland Power Station in Tyne and Wear
Official name	Sunderland power station
Country	England
Location	Tyne and Wear, North East England
Coordinates	54°54′42″N 1°23′47″W / 54.911609°N 1.396324°W / 54.911609; -1.396324Coordinates: 54°54′42″N 1°23′47″W / 54.911609°N 1.396324°W / 54.911609; -1.396324
Decommission date	1976
Operator(s)	Central Electricity Generating Board
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal-fired
grid reference NZ388576

Sunderland Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on the bank of the River Wear, in the city centre of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, North East England. The station operated into the 1970s,^[1] but in October 1975, the Central Electricity Generating Board gave 12 months notification of the station's closure.^[2] It finally closed on 25 October 1976, with a generating capacity of 34 megawatts.^[3] The station was then demolished in 1979.^[4] The cooling tower in particular was demolished in February of that year. The power station's site is now occupied by a PC World outlet.^[5]

In 1962 the station was featured in L. S. Lowry's painting of Sunderland's dockside. The painting is now in the collection of Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.^[6]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sunderland Power Station.

• Flickr - photos of the station's cooling tower demolition

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