Greenwich Power Station
Greenwich Power Station is a standby gas and formerly oil and coal-fired power station by the River Thames at Greenwich in south-east London. Originally constructed to supply power for London's tram system, since 1988 it has been London Underground's central emergency power supply, providing power if there is partial or total loss of National Grid supplies.Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal Observatory and Cutty Sark.
Royal Observatory
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. Royal Observatory is situated 2,900 feet south of Greenwich Power Station.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. Cutty Sark is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Greenwich Power Station.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. National Maritime Museum is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Greenwich Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenwich and Cubitt Town.
Greenwich
Town
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Greenwich is an affluent area in south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the ceremonial county of Greater London, 5.5 miles east-south-east of Charing Cross.
Cubitt Town
Quarter
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.
London Yard
Neighborhood
London Yard was a shipyard in Cubitt Town, London, in use between around 1856 and 1908 by various shipbuilding companies, including Westwood, Baillie and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
Greenwich Power Station
- Type: Power station
- Description: power station in Greenwich, London, England, UK
- Categories: oil-fired power station, coal-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.48516° or 51° 29′ 7″ northLongitude
-0.00076° or 0° 0′ 3″ westInception
1906Operator
London UndergroundOpen location code
9C3XFXPX+3MOpenStreetMap ID
way 35535207OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q5604870
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Highlights include Trinity Hospital and Cutty Sark.
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