Scotland’s Art Deco Heritage 48: Tongland Power Station
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco at 20:00 on 1 December 2017
Not the sort of thing you really expect to come across on rounding a corner in rural Scotland. An Art Deco/Modernist Power Station.
Tongland Power Station, part of the Galloway hydro-electric power scheme, is in Dumfries and Galloway on the A711 between Castle Douglas and Kirkcudbright.
Frontage:-
Reverse view:-
Vehicle entrance gates:-
Detached building and what looks like a huge water tank:-
Tags: Art Deco, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Galloway hydro-electric power scheme, Kirkcudbright, Tongland Power Station
`ken ferguson
11 March 2021 at 20:14
The structure described as a large water tank is a surge tower to allow excess water to be safely held in floods.
Ken Ferguson
jackdeighton
11 March 2021 at 23:07
Ken Ferguson,
Thanks for this. I’ll now know that the next time I come across One!
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