Steam up at Lake Coleridge
By
TOM METCALFE
A procession of steam traction engines will travel more than 80km from Coalgate to Lake Coleridge to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the power station at the lake. Between 12 and 15 engines will leave Colgate on Friday to follow the “Coleridge Run,” a path used by traction engines to carry materials to the station when it was being built, from 1911 to 1914. The engines are expected to arrive at Lake Coleridge at midday on Saturday. The run is a feature of the Lake
Coleridge celebrations, which also include a golf tournament at Methven, tours of the station, and a formal ball. Lake Coleridge is New Zealand’s oldest State-owned hydro-electric station, opened on November 25, 1914. It initially generated 4.5 MW of electricity from three turbine generators, and supplied almost the whole of Canterbury until the 19305. Today it generates 34MW from nine turbine generators, the youngest commissioned in 1930. The station will be open to the public on Sunday, November 16.
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