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Whilst I have no objections to the use of this particular title; there were two power stations, so strictly the title aught to be Portishead Power Stations. Pyrotec23:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
User:86.150.127.38 added the following to the article - moving it here for discussion & references. "Comment on preceding paragraph...oil burning boilers 9 - 12 in 'B' station were modified in the early to mid 1960s with a new design of retractable, light weight, oil burner developed by CEGB Scientific Services. In the late 60s, Boilers 1 to 8 were progressively converted to oil fired and the mills, exhausters, conveyors, associated coal and ash plant was removed. In 1969, 'A' station was still coal fired and it is doubtful if 'A' was converted to oil due to difficulty converting 20 to 40- year old boilers with chain grate stokers to oil burning. 'A' station had a worker's redundancy in 1971 and was on the run down after that. Even in the 1960's, 'A' station rarely worked except on Monday mornings for a few hours. The general trend to building very large power stations near the colliery pithead to avoid long distance travel, and nuclear as first string, made the old and or small power stations uneconomic."— Rodtalk12:33, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
