The station's original equipment consisted of three Metropolitan-Vickers 27.5 MW turbo-alternators, nine Babcock & Wilcox chain-grate stoked boilers, Mather & Platt auxiliary equipment and British Thomson-Houston switchgear.

[1][2] Coal was delivered to the station in barges, using the Bridgewater Canal.

The station was extended in 1928 with the addition of a three new Babcock & Willcox boilers at 130,000Ib/hr.

This powers a Metropolitan-Vickers a 40 MW 6,600 Volt turbo alternator with a 1MW house set on the same shaft.

[7] The station was closed on 18 March 1974 with a reduced generating capacity of 69 MW.