Yanco Powerhouse Museum

Coordinates: 34°36′13″S 146°24′27″E / 34.603488°S 146.407435°E / -34.603488; 146.407435

Yanco Powerhouse Museum
Location Yanco, New South Wales

Yanco Powerhouse Museum is located at Binya Street in Yanco, New South Wales, Australia. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, when power was required for general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory.[1] The site on which it was constructed was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source that would be used for condensing water using a secondhand 75 KW generator. 6.5 kilometres of transmission lines were installed on flexible steel poles, the first of their kind in Australia.[1] The station's construction is concrete. In 1937 the five story building was extended. It was decommissioned in 1957 when the Snowy Mountains Scheme was completed and hydro-electric power was supplied to the region.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Saxon, Doug (1982). A Brief History of Yanco. Yanco: Murrmumbidgee Irrigator Print. p. 32.
  2. ↑ "Yanco Powerhouse Museum". Collections Australia Network. Retrieved 2008-04-01.


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