Whinfield coke works

Whinfield coke works was a large industrial complex located near Rowlands Gill in Tyne and Wear, North East England.

Initially the electricity powered the Victoria Garesfield Colliery and lit the coke works.

[1] In 1902 the station began providing electricity to light the villages of Victoria Garesfield, Highfield, Barlow and Rowlands Gill.

[1][2][3] This station used Babcock & Wilcox boilers, which burned coke instead of just using waste heat from the works.

As demand increased, electric supplies were supplemented with the laying of a cable from Dunston power station to Whinfield in 1917.