Palmerston North Electric Power Station Inc.

Map of the Palmerston North Power & Gas Production Facilities

Scroll down for the key to places

Key to Places

1. Power Station

2. Pond

3. The two water cooling towers - since replaced by the two exhaust pipes

4. Retort building

5. (to be confirmed)

6. Railway siding to retort building

7. Power station staff house

8. Power station staff house

9. Gasworks staff house

10. Siding to gasworks

11. Coal bunkers on hillside for gasworks (a new roof now covers this building)

12. Gasworks retort house

13. Gasworks offices and staff quarters (as I recall)

14. Lagoon bed, which filled with water in winter (this was farmland)

15. Large gasometre

16. Small gasometre

Note that the railway siding ran along the hilltop, which is where the power station is located. Meanwhile the gasworks was sited below the hill, in an area that was exposed to flooding during extreme circumstances. Terrace End Cemetery is not marked, however, it begins with the blank area as the top of the map, immediately above the power station. This drawing comes from a recently rediscovered collection of plans and drawings associated with development of the power station.

Last Updated: 1/4/2001