Steam winding engine, Haig Colliery
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Steam winding engine, Haig Colliery
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 5 Nov 1986
This is the smaller Bever, Dorling engine, built 1916. 30" x 5' with a 14' drum. Stopped 1986. Now preserved and workable by compressed air. Several of my colleagues have driven this on compressed air (don't think I have).
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Image Location
Latitude
54.543088
Longitude
-3.597987