Neasden Power Station was a coal-fired power station

Fossil fuel power plant

A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...

 built by the Metropolitan Railway

Metropolitan railway

Metropolitan Railway can refer to:* Metropolitan line, part of the London Underground* Metropolitan Railway, the first underground railway to be built in London...

 for their electrification project. It was opened in December 1904. The Neasden

Neasden

Neasden is an area in northwest London, UK. It forms part of the London Borough of Brent.-History:The area was recorded as Neasdun in 939 AD and the name is derived from the Old English nēos = 'nose' and dūn = 'hill'. It means 'the nose-shaped hill' referring to a well-defined landmark of this area...

 site was alongside the Metropolitan Railways existing depot and workshops.

Along with Lots Road power station

Lots Road Power Station

Lots Road Power Station is a disused coal and later oil-fired power station on the River Thames at Lots Road in Chelsea, London in the south-west of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which supplied electricity to the London Underground system...

, Neasden power station supplied the combined London Transport network from its formation in 1933.

Coal for the power station was brought in by rail in trains run initially by the MetR using its fleet of steam locomotives

London Underground steam locomotives

Initially, services on the Metropolitan Railway were operated by the Great Western Railway who built a special type of locomotives, the Metropolitan Class, to operate through the tunnels....

 and then by the LNER after June 1935.

The power station ceased generating in 1968.

External links

• Photo - London Transport Museum