Yanco Powerhouse Museum

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Yanco Powerhouse Museum
Established
Location	Yanco, New South Wales
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Yanco Powerhouse Museum is located at Binua Street in Yanco, New South Wales Australia. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the MIA (Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area), after power was required for the general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory^[1]. The site which it was constructed on was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source which would be used to condensing water using a secondhand 75Km generator, 6.5 kilometers transmission lines where installed on flexible steel poles where erected which was the first of its kind in Australia^[1]. The of the station's construction is concrete, 1937 the five story building was extended and was decommissioned in 1957 when the Snowy Mountains Scheme was completed.^[1] ^[2]..

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c Saxon, Doug (1982). A Brief History of Yanco. Yanco: Murrmumbidgee Irrigator Print, p 32.
^ Yanco Powerhouse Museum. Collections Australia Network. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.