Dock Road Sewage Pumping Station

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Dock Road Sewage Pumping Station by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.

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Dock Road Sewage Pumping Station

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 25 Jan 1992

Now open regularly as a visitor attraction and home to a pair of horizontal single cylinder gas engines driving reciprocating pumps. I think they were originally hot-tube but later converted to spark ignition. It was a bitterly cold morning and the engine that was runnable resisted vigorous attempts to coax it into life.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.254874
Longitude
-2.514977