Kempton Park Pumping Station - steam turbine
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Kempton Park Pumping Station - steam turbine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 17 Apr 2011
A 1933 Fraser & Chalmers steam turbine with reduction gearing to a pair of centrifugal pumps in parallel. The surface condenser and its tube bundles are seen running transversely beyond the last stage of the turbine. Extreme right top is the water turbine driven dynamo that could be used to run the pumping station in the event of a loss of mains power. Although badged as Fraser and Chalmers, the company was by then part of the General Electric Company and the original drawings are now with Siemens at Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.425696
Longitude
-0.403992