Tees Cottage Pumping Station - beam engine

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 14 Oct 1990

This is the site's preserved Woolf compound beam pumping engine that was installed in 1904. This was the third beam engine on the site, the earlier two dating from 1849 and 1853. This part of the site was designed by T & C Hawksley of London, the engine was designed by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock and erected by Teasdale Brothers of Darlington. It is believed that the major components were made by companies in Leeds and Manchester. The beam engine was rated at 140 horsepower at 16 revolutions per minute with steam at 100 pounds per square inch. The low lift and high lift pumps are at this end of the beam and the cylinders are at the other side of ornamental column on the far end of the beam. The flywheel on the right is 21' diameter. The engine ran until 1926 and was kept on standby for some years afterwards. The works closed in 1980 and is now managed by a Trust.

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