Armley Mills - Beam engine
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Armley Mills - Beam engine
Image: © Ashley Dace Taken: 20 Dec 2013
This museum, in a large former textile mill has one engine dismantled and in store and one on display in less than ideal circumstances. The one on display is an A frame type single cylinder built in about 1845 by Hick, Hargreaves of Bolton. It was used to work hoisting machinery in the London Road warehouse, Manchester of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. It was originally displayed at the original York Railway Museum with an incomplete flywheel and this state of affairs persists. Pinched from the 'beam engine gallery' http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Beam-Engines-in-the-UK
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Image Location
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53.802924
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-1.583021