Albion Mills, Hazel Grove - steam engine
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Albion Mills, Hazel Grove - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 5 Feb 1984
This site had been abandoned and left open for anybody to walk in. This was a long-disused horizontal cross compound mill engine built by S S Stott of Haslingden in 1903. It was installed second-hand in about 1929 and stopped about 1965. The high pressure cylinder has Corliss valves and is 12.5" bore and the low pressure has a slide valve and is 22" bore. The common stroke is 3'. The flywheel is 10' diameter. The engine was rated at 250 indicated horsepower. This view is of the high pressure cylinder and its Corliss valve gear. The steam (inlet) valves are at the top corners with the governor controlled trip gear between them. The exhaust valves are at the bottom corners. Top centre you can see part of the main stop valve (never a start valve) with its emergency electric stop motion. The trunk crosshead guide is to the left. This engine is now preserved and steamable at the Anson Museum in Higher Poynton.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.383381
Longitude
-2.124742