South Shore Road power station

South Shore Road power station
Location of South Shore Road power station in Tyne and Wear
Country	England
Location	Gateshead
Coordinates	54°58′08″N 1°35′42″W / 54.969°N 1.595°W / 54.969; -1.595Coordinates: 54°58′08″N 1°35′42″W / 54.969°N 1.595°W / 54.969; -1.595
Status	Demolished
Owner(s)	Durham Electrical Power Distribution Company Newcastle upon Tyne Electric Supply Company
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal

South Shore Road power station was a coal-fired power station situated on the River Tyne at Gateshead, North East England. The station was built by the Durham Electrical Power Distribution Company in the early twentieth century. Ownership of the station handed over to the Newcastle upon Tyne Electric Supply Company in June 1932 when they bought the Durham company.^[1] During the Second World War a warden post was situated at the power station.^[2] The site of the power station, near the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, has since been cleared and an office development is being constructed on it.

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Electricity generation in North East England
Generating sites	Biomass Active Biomass Energy Centre Lynemouth (co-fires) Wilton 10 Proposed BEI-Teesside Billingham North Blyth Teesport Tyne REP Coal Active Lynemouth Closed Berwick upon Tweed Blyth Carville Chopwell Colliery Close Consett Darlington Derwenthaugh Coke Works Dunston Forth Banks Hebburn Horden Colliery Lemington Mainsforth Colliery Manors Morrison Busty Colliery Neptune Bank Newburn Steelworks North Tees Ouston Colliery Pandon Dene Philadelphia South Shore Road South Shields Stella Sunderland Vane Tempest Colliery Whinfield Proposed Eston Grange (Gasification) Cancelled Blyth Clean Coal Kepier Gas Active Seal Sands Teesside Wilton Proposed ConocoPhillips Teesside Thor Cogeneration Cancelled Newburn Hydro Active Derwent Kielder Closed Cragside Nuclear Active Hartlepool Cancelled Druridge Bay Oil Active Wilton Waste Active Teesside Path Head landfill Closed Blaydon Burn Derwenthaugh Coke Works Newburn Steelworks Portrack Whinfield Proposed North Eastern Energy Recovery Centre Wilton 11 Cancelled Blyth Wind Active Blyth Harbour Blyth Offshore Broom Hill Great Eppleton Hare Hill High Sharpley High Volts Holmside Hall Kirkheaton Langley Park Teesside Tow Law Trimdon Grange Walkway West Durham Proposed Butterwick Moor Haswell Moor Kiln Pit Hill Lynemouth Royal Oak Barmoor South Green Rigg Kielder Moorsyde Ray Hill South Sharpley Steadings Teeswind North The Isles Todd Hill West Ancroft Wingates
Organisations and personnel	A. Reyrolle & Company C. A. Parsons and Company Northern Powergrid Charles Algernon Parsons Charles Hesterman Merz Clarke Chapman John Theodore Merz L J Couves & Partners Merz & McLellan NaREC Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company North Eastern Electric Supply Company Northern Electric Northern Engineering Industries Pre-nationalisation North East electric power companies
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