Eastney Pumping Station - beam engine
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Eastney Pumping Station - beam engine by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Eastney Pumping Station - beam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Mar 2010
This is a very busy picture on the packing platform and showing the cylinder tops of one of the 1887 James Watt & Company Woolf compound beam engines. At the top is the parallel motion linking the two shiny vertical pistons rods to the beam on the floor above. The high pressure cylinder is on the left hand rod and the low pressure on the right hand rod. The red pipe brings steam from the boiler through the stop valve and governor valve to the high pressure cylinder. The two piston valves are between the photographer and the cylinders. On top of the high pressure valve is the cut-off gear that operates an internal cut-off valve worked through a thin link from the parallel motion and a rocking lever. The cut-off is adjusted by a hand wheel on the floor below. There is an awful lot of detail in this picture and it is hard to do it justice in words. If you happen to be one of the few people intimate with this type of kit it is all self-evident.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.788826
Longitude
-1.045757