Eastney Pumping Station - steam engine
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Eastney Pumping Station - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Mar 2010
These are the wood-lagged cylinders of one of the two Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engines built in 1887 by James Watt & Company. They stopped about 1937 and were on standby until 1954. They were preserved by the local Council and one is steamable. The high pressure cylinder is to the left and the low pressure to the right. Steam is distributed by piston valves with an internal cut-off valve on the high-pressure cylinder.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.788826
Longitude
-1.045757