Site Records

Quoich Power Station

OS Grid Ref: NH 10717 01186
Date opened: 1955
Date closed : Operational

Looking down to Quoich power station, from the main road above:

Photo: Quoich Power Station
Photo by: Mike Ross

This set of drawings clearly shows the internal arrangements:

Drawing: Quoich Power Station
Illustration by: Scanned by Mike Ross, from Water Power, June 1959

Looking up at Quoich power station from the tailrace into the river:

Quoich power sation is a simple box-shaped structure, attractively clad in Tarradale stone:

An archive view of Quoich power station nearing completion:

Another archive view - the interior of the station, taken from the overhead crane:

One from my archives - the set at Quoich dismantled for maintenance, taken when I was a boy; the turbine runner is out and the stator has been removed, revealing the generator rotor:

The Francis turbine runner from Quoich:

Words and images © 2006 Michael J. Ross