Steam engine, Ashgrove Works
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Steam engine, Ashgrove Works
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 2 Nov 2005
A mixture of very orange artificial light plus flash has produced a very strange colour temperature. The engine is a horizontal single cylinder condensing engine by Pearce Bros, Dundee, 1865. It is gear drive and has an expansion drop valve above the slide valve chest.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.587232
Longitude
-3.317171