Hawkesbury - steam narrowboat Tixall
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The photograph on this page of Hawkesbury - steam narrowboat Tixall by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 22 Jun 2013
Built in Stoke-on-Trent in 1986. The engine is an inverted vertical compound built in 1986 by Anthony Bever at Swindon to an A A Leak design. The cylinders are 4.5" & 7" x 4" with a piston valve on the high pressure and a slide valve on the low pressure. Reverse is by Stephenson's link. The horizontal cylinder alongside is the condenser and the vertical red cylinder is the domestic hot water supply. The latter is heated by exhaust from the little engine driving the battery charging alternator. As built she had a water-tube boiler but now seems to have a vertical fire-tube boiler. The vessel is an excellent example of a practical steamboat.
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