Steam pumping engine, Connaught Road, Dover

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Steam pumping engine, Connaught Road, Dover

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 20 Nov 1985

Worthington-Simpson inverted vertical triple expansion pumping engine No. 5055 of 1937. Slowly deteriorating in a very tight engine house. The sister engine is preserved at Forncett St Mary, Norfolk.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.131117
Longitude
1.315974