[1][2] It was built to replace the electricity supply from Gloucester Corporation's works on Commercial Road.

Castle Meads was one of two 'war emergency' stations intended to spread the risk due to war damage.

Castle Meads comprised two 20 MW British Thomson-Houston turbo-alternator sets, the first was commissioned in December 1942 just two years after work started on the site.

[5] Coal brought to the station by rail on the Great Western Railway's Docks branch from Over, and by barge.

After the closure of the power station, the locomotive was preserved at the National Waterways Museum in Gloucester.