 Drakelow power stations were supplied with coal via a branch off the adjacent Leicester and Burton railway line.Rail facilities included east- and west-facing junctions on the mainline, A and B station reception sidings, a merry-go-round loop with an associated coal hopper; the reception and departure sidings for the C station included weighbridges, coal hoppers, and ash and coal sidings.The cooling water system enabled the abstraction of up to 36,400 m3/h (8 million gallons per hour) of water from the River Trent.