Land Drainage and Sewage Pumping Stations with Steam Engines
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:46 Chris Allen |
This is a shorter gallery than the water works one but still contains several significant machines. It is my intention to post interior and exterior views of them all. We will start in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire with the three old surviving beam engines. These all drove scoop wheels by reduction gearing. The scoopwheel is effectively a low breast shot waterwheel in reverse and lifts water to a higher level. The grand-daddy of them all is the 1831 Butterley engine at Stretham ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Next is the 1833 example at Pinchbeck, claimed by some to be another Butterley product. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last of the beam engines and the only one in steam is at Dogdyke Pumping Station near Tattershall Castle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:36 Chris Allen |
Next we move to the Somerset Levels. These had a variety of steam engines by various incarnations of the London firm of Easton & Amos. The oldest is from 1861 and is at Westonzoyland ![]() ![]() ![]() Curry Moor Pumping Station dates from 1864 and the engine ![]() ![]() The last of the pumping stations is Aller Moor ![]() ![]() |
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:13 Chris Allen |
The most recent of the surviving in situ steam engines is at Owston Ferry ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:31 Chris Allen |
Sewage pumping stations are coming next. There are not as many as for waterworks and there is a preponderance of big rotative beam engines. There are no Cornish type sewage pumps and no surviving in situ inverted vertical engine sewage pumps. There is one thoroughly unique set of horizontal pumps - the world's only workable Davey differential engines. |
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:14 Chris Allen |
Crossness Pumping Station ![]() ![]() ![]() There are two other pumping stations with four beam engines. Claymills ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three stations have a pair of engines. Oldest is Eastney ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:25 Chris Allen |
A single Woolf compound beam engine is to be found at Markfield Road Pumping Station, Tottenham ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are two stations with horizontal pumping engines. At Low Hall Depot, Walthamstow ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, we have Cheddars Lane Pumping station, now the Cambridge Museum of technology ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:58 Chris Allen |
New pictures added for Markfield Road, Tottenham and Low Hall Depot, Walthamstow. |
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:54 Chris Allen |
Updated Crossness, Claymills, Eastney, Markfield Road and Walthamstow. |
Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13 Chris Allen |
Added a further picture for Coleham, Shrewsbury. |
Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:14 Chris Allen |
More information on stationary and marine steam can be found from ISSES - International Stationary Steam Engine Society. Website - http://www.isses.org/ The Society also publishes a quarterly 60 page Bulletin, occasional Newsletters and an annual Steaming Dates List. |
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