Lincoln power stations were a sequence of electricity generating stations that provided electric power to the City of Lincoln and the wider area between 1898 and 1977. The first station was built by Lincoln Corporation in 1898 on Brayford Wharf. During the First World War the engineering company Clayton and Shuttleworth built a power station in Spa Road to meet its own electricity needs. This private station was bought by Lincoln Corporation in 1918 and was expanded to meet rising demand and supplied electricity until it was demolished in 1953. A final power station was built on the Spa Road site over the period 1947–57 and operated until it was decommissioned in 1977. Background The Corporation of Lincoln applied for, and was granted by the Board of Trade, a Provisional Electric Lighting Order to generate and supply electricity to the City of Lincoln in 1897. This was ratified by Parliament in the Electric Lighting Order Confirmation (No. 2) Act 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. lxii). Brayford power station, 1898–1917 The first electricity generating station was built in 1898 by the Lincoln Corporation. It was located on Brayford Wharf North; this provided access to local waterways for the delivery of coal and the disposal of ash by barge, and also provided a source of water for the station's condensing plant. Brayford Pool is connected to the River Trent via the Fossdyke Navigation to the west and to the River Witham to the south. The station had a boiler house and an engine house. The boiler house contained the following plant: 5 × economic boilers operating at 125 psi (8.6 bar) (saturated) 1 × Climax boiler operating at 200 psi (13.8 bar) (superheated) 1 × Babcock & Wilcox 6,000 pounds per hour (0.756 kg/s) boiler, operating at 200 psi (13.8 bar) (superheated) 2 × Howden 15,000 and 20,000 pounds per hour (1.89 kg/s and 2.52 kg/s) boilers, operating at 200 psi (13.8 bar) (superheated). The engine house comprised the following equipment: 3 × Willlans engines coupled to a Laurence Scott generating machine 3 × Willans engines coupled to a Laurence Scott generating machine 1 × Triple expansion Howden engine 1 × 750 kW Willans-Westinghouse turbines coupled to a rotary converter giving a DC supply. Lincoln's tram system was taken over by Lincoln Corporation in 1905 and was electrified taking DC traction power from the Brayford power station. During the First World