Greenfield Heritage Park - steam engine
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Greenfield Heritage Park - steam engine
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 31 Jul 2022
This inverted vertical single cylinder engine drives a reconstructed pop bottling plant on the first floor of the Railway Museum that is open one Sunday a month in the season. It was built by Robey of Lincoln in 1931 as No. 46005 and used at Wrexham Technical College. As befits a teaching engine it has an adjustable Meyer slide valve. It was running at 108 rpm and taking steam at about 60 psi. It lives in a wooden 'hut' with a glass window in front of the engine. This view is through the door with the help of the friendly volunteers on site. Because it used a mixture of time and flash the engine appears to have two crossheads.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.285777
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-3.212405