Markfield Beam Engine and Museum - sewage pump
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Markfield Beam Engine and Museum - sewage pump
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 24 Jul 2011
Markfield Road Pumping Station has an 8 column Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engine. This drives two single acting plunger pumps for pumping the sewage. The pumps are 26" bore by 51" stroke and could each move 2 million gallons per day. One pump is operated from the crank half of the beam by two rods passing either side of the crank's arc of rotation, the other pump is driven from the high pressure cylinder's piston tail rod. This is the pump at the crank end of the engine. Having pumps either side of the beam's transverse centreline makes for a smoother delivery as when one pump is on the suction stroke the other is on the discharge stroke. On an earlier visit I had photographed the other pump but had missed this one out.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.58186
Longitude
-0.061503