CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD
EARLEY POWER STATION, NEAR READING
(Central Electricity Authority until 1/1/1958; British 
Electricity Authority until 1/4/1955; Central Electricity
Board until 1/4/1948)

A coal fired power station built from 1942 on the north of the
BR (ex GWR) main line east of Reading with sidings connecting
with this line and a loco shed at the west end of the site at
SU 742 741.  Later a small gas turbine power station was added
to the site; the coal fired station closed in 1977 when normal
rail traffic ceased.

Gauge 4ft 8.5in

A	B        C   D   E    F     G    H

(No 1)	0-4-0ST  OC  RSH 7058 1942  New (3)
(No 2)	0-4-0ST  OC  RSH 7306 1946  New (1)
No 3	4wDM         MR  3966 1939  (a) (2)
No 4	0-6-0DM      AB   422 1958  (b) (4)

Notes

(a) ex Marchwood Power Station, Hants, c. 1960
(b) ex East Yelland Power Station, Devon, 9/1968

(1) scrapped on site by Cooper (Metals) Ltd, Swindon, 4/1969
(2) to East Yelland Power Station, Devon, 1/1970
(3) to Gwili Railway Co, Dyfed, 19/2/1978
(4) to Farthingstone Silos Ltd, Northampton, 22/3/1978


Thanks to the Industrial Railway Society
for supplying this information.