Yanco Powerhouse Museum

Yanco Powerhouse Museum is located at Binya Street in Yanco, New South Wales, Australia. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, when power was required for general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory.[1] The site on which it was constructed was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source that would be used for condensing water using a secondhand 75 KW generator. 6.5 km (4.0 mi) of transmission lines were installed on flexible steel poles, the first of their kind in Australia.[1] The station's construction is concrete. In 1937, the five story building was extended. It was decommissioned in 1957 when the Snowy Mountains Scheme was completed and hydro-electric power was supplied to the region.[1][2]

Yanco Powerhouse Museum
LocationYanco, New South Wales , Australia

Collection

The museums collection focuses on general aspects of local life including dioramas of life in the early-mid 20th century, a gallery of local historical photos, and a collection of local machinery from farming and industry.[3]

gollark: Ender modems can send and receive at arbitrary distances.
gollark: You can use a regular wireless modem on the other end.
gollark: Honestly, I would have liked it more if the unlimited range modems were big structures of some sort so routing actually existed.
gollark: Yes, wireless modems can only go some amount of blocks depending on their height and the weather.
gollark: The only real advantage it has is routing, and ender modems obsoleted that (which I'm kind of sad about).

References
  1. Saxon, Doug (1982). A Brief History of Yanco. Yanco: Murrmumbidgee Irrigator Print. p. 32.
  2. "Yanco Powerhouse Museum". Collections Australia Network. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
  3. "Powerhouse Museum Yanco. - People and organisations". Trove. Retrieved 28 December 2017.


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