Edison’s Holborn Viaduct station closed just six years after its ... The newly nationalised power industry started to look at building a few giant centralised ‘super stations’ astride ...

The UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station is to shut at the end of September, drawing to a close Britain’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity. Ratcliffe-on-Soar ...

The first coal-fired power station in the world, the Holborn Viaduct power station, was built in 1882 in London by the inventor Thomas Edison - bringing light to the streets of the capital.

The first coal plant in Britain went online in 1882, when Thomas Edison's Holborn Viaduct coal plant started generating electricity for public use. It was a first-of-its-kind station, and it ...

While the Victorian frontage remains, most of the rest of the station building is covered by Embankment ... and through St Paul's Station to Holborn Viaduct in 1886. St Paul's was renamed ...

Coal fuelled our country for generation after generation, a journey that started in 1882 at Holborn Viaduct power station and ended ... but the one we have started building.

This pub was editorially chosen for inclusion by Londonist. Next to, named after, and of a piece with Holborn Viaduct, this gorgeous corner pub is rightly famous. Its wedge-shaped profile is ...

It took 38 tons of red paint to coat the entire bridge. For many years, the Garabit Viaduct remained the tallest bridge in the world. The single railroad track crosses the Garabit Valley ...