Eastney Pumping Station - beam engines
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Eastney Pumping Station - beam engines
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Mar 2010
The two James Watt & Co Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engines built in 1887. They stopped regular work about 1937 and came off standby in 1954. They were restored from a very rusty and derelict state in the 1970s.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.788826
Longitude
-1.045757