Winding House, New Tredegar
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Winding House, New Tredegar
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 5 Oct 1997
This is the former Elliot Colliery's East Pit winding engine. It is now preserved. It was built as a horizontal duplex steam winding engine in 1891 by Thornewill & Warham of Burton-on-Trent. It was modified in 1904 when high pressure cylinders were added to make it a twin tandem compound. This view shows the engine's most interesting feature - a diabolo drum with a central parallel section 15' diameter connected by a spiral to two outer parallel sections 26' diameter. The brake operates on the outer sections. There is only one other drum of this type in the UK and it is dismantled and in storage.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.716612
Longitude
-3.235695