The Galloway Hydro Scheme: Part One Loch Doon

Many attempts were made to harness Loch Doon for Hydro Power between the 1890s and the 1920s, but it wasn't until the National Grid came into existence in the late 1920s that it became a real possibility.
Then in May 1929, a bill making Loch Doon the main reservoir of the Galloway Hydro Scheme gained royal ascent, and work was set to begin.
It could, perhaps, have been derailed by the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, but this breathtakingly ambitious Renewable Energy Scheme went ahead.
This is the first part in a new series about the building of the Galloway Hydro Scheme.
Sources:
www.scottish-p... - Carsphairn Lane
www.scottish-p... - Water of Deugh
Original dam, Canmore: canmore.org.uk...
Salmon ladder, canmore: canmore.org.uk...
canmore.org.uk...
Salmon Ladder, core.ac.uk/dow... , LESLIE ON SALMON-LADDERS IN SCOTLAND.
Loch Doon, Salmon Ladder and Hydro Scheme leaflet, Scottish Power www.scottishpo...
Western Scotland Climate, Met Office www.metoffice....
Tunnel and Dam by George Hill : dumgal.inforli...
An architectural re-assesment of the Galloway hydro-electric development 1998.
Twiname, Alistair.:
dumgal.inforli...
Many thanks to Galloway Then and Now for their filming and editing assistance and Dumfries and Galloway Libraries for the books and support.
Intro/outro maps from Google Earth
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[@johnjiv5790]

Fascinating , as always. Moving a ruined Castle , how wild !
For a lovely insight into the Loch Doon Hydro project , the beautiful novel 'House by the loch' by Kirsty Wark is a terrific read.

[@trig6712]

Great , Galloway Hydro great to have it told Angela much appreciated Thank you

[@gallowayretold6124]

It's really quite the feat of engineering and infrastructure!
Glad you enjoyed it!

[@peterhoulihan9766]

For some reason Loch Doon is giving me flashbacks to 2020. Can't imagine why.

[@gallowayretold6124]

It's not as deserted as it looks! We tried to film there one day and found it really hard to find a place to film without people, then had several takes ruined by the loudest motorbike you ever heard roaring up and down the bit of road over the dam!

[@TheBearAndHer]

Interesting stuff. Thank you.

[@gallowayretold6124]

Thank you 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it!

[@elizabethcraig9267]

Detailed and interesting...thank you Angela!

[@gallowayretold6124]

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Eggyfart83]

The salmon ladder is a joke, the salmon struggle to get up it and once in the loch they and there smolts struggle to get back out into the river