Lister Drive power station was a series of generating stations that supplied electricity to the City of Liverpool and the wider area from 1900 until 1980. They were owned and collaboratively operated by Liverpool Corporation and Marcus Kemp Coal Limited until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The power station was developed in several phases: designated No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 stations. A gas turbine station was commissioned in March 1965. Equipment specification Plant in 1923 In 1923 the plant comprised: Boilers, producing 1,000,000 lb/h (126 kg/s) of steam supplying: Steam turbine generating sets: 6 × 2,000 kW AC 2 × 3,500 kW AC 2 × 6,000 kW AC 1 × 10,000 kW AC 2 × 12,500 kW AC 2 × 2,000 kW DC The total output was 66.0 MW AC and 4.0 MW DC. No. 3 power station The No. 3 Station was constructed in 1926–28 and comprised: Boilers: 2 × 60,000 lb/h (7.6 kg/s) Yarrow, stoker fired 4 × 60,000 lb/h (7.6 kg/s) Babcock and Wilcox, stoker fired 2 × 125,000 lb/h (15.75 kg/s) Babcock and Wilcox, pulverised fuel fired The working pressure of the boilers was 325 psi at 700°F (22.4 bar, 371°C). Turbo-alternators: 2 × 25 MW Metropolitan-Vickers turbo-alternator generating at 6.3 kV, each with a 375 kW 480 V DC auxiliary generator. Cooling towers: 5 × Henshaw cooling towers each with a capacity of 2.615 million gallons per hour (3.302 m3/sec). These were the first ferro-concrete hyperbolic cooling tower in the UK. The Lister Drive towers were 39.6 m high and 30.5 m in diameter at the base. Coal was delivered to Lister Drive via sidings from the adjacent Edge Hill and Bootle railway line. A range of electricity supplies were available (in 1923) to consumers: 3-phase, 50 Hz AC at 230 and 400 Volts. DC 230 and 460 V DC Traction current 500 V Other Liverpool power stations Lister Drive was the principal power station serving Liverpool. There were other power stations connected to the system supplying electricity to the City. In 1923 there were five rubbish destructors burning trade and domestic refuse, the steam raised in the destructor furnaces drove steam turbines. There were 7 × 100 kW, 2 × 150 kW, 5 × 200 kW, and 1 × 500 kW machines generating a DC supply. The total generating capacity was 2.5 MW. Clarence Dock power station