Deep Duffryn Colliery, steam fan engine
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Deep Duffryn Colliery, steam fan engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 23 Apr 1982
Also known as Nixon's Navigation Colliery and sometimes as Abergorki Colliery. This engine drove a large Waddle ventilating fan and was built in about 1880 by The Waddle Patent Fan & Engineering Co of Llanelly. This was a very simple piston valve machine with two simple cylinders arranged vis a vis. Only one was used at a time with the other acting as a standby that could be got in to use quite quickly by swapping over the connecting rods. The fan was very rusty and has been cut up. The engine is at Big Pit Mining Museum but I do not know whether or not it is on display yet.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.681699
Longitude
-3.375485