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Sealand Close, SR2 0FU

Boiler by Galloways Limited of Manchester, dated 1902. Seen during a firing weekend at Ryhope Pumping Station.

On display in the boiler house in 1989 was this inverted vertical compound test engine built by W Sisson of Gloucester in 1952 as No. E5383. It was supplied to Gateshead technical college and the cylinders are 4.5" & 9" x 9".

The former Ryhope pumping station, opened 1868 by the Sunderland & South Shields Water Company.

Firing the in steam Galloway boiler at this preserved Victorian water pumping station. The stoker is slightly blurred as this is a time exposure using available light. Fujifilm 100ASA slide film and scanned on a CanoScan FS4000US scanner.

The two boilers by W & J Galloway of Manchester and built in 1908. The closest is in steam but the further one was clearly empty.

This is an off-site horizontal duplex steam winch and sheerlegs assembly that came from Sunderland and District General Hospital where it serviced a well. The winch was made by R J Smith of Sunderland and I can't recall seeing another by that maker.

Two Woolf compound rotative pumping engines. Relatively plain but large and stately. Preserved since the late 1960s and regularly demonstrated in steam.

This preserved waterworks has a pair of Woolf compound beam pumping engines built by R & W Hawthorn in 1868 and running until 1967. This shows the packing platform with the cylinder heads and parallel motion. Also seen is the upper valve chest with its Cornish drop valves. The cylinders are - high pressure 27.5" x 5' 4" and low pressure 45" x 8'. The engines used steam at 35 psi at the stop valve.

This preserved waterworks has a pair of Woolf compound beam pumping engines built by R & W Hawthorn in 1868 and running until 1967. This shows the packing platform with the cylinder heads and parallel motion of one engine. Also seen is the upper valve chest with its Cornish drop valves. The cylinders are - high pressure 27.5" x 5' 4" and low pressure 45" x 8'. The engines used steam at 35 psi at the stop valve. The rod on the right disappearing through a hole in the platform drives a pump in the staple well with a 10' 8" stroke. The engines lifted in two stages with the pump at the crank end of the beam lifting water to a level 130' below the engine house and the staple well pump then completing the lift to the ground level reservoir. This maintained balance around the beam's centre.

This preserved waterworks has a pair of Woolf compound beam pumping engines built by R & W Hawthorn in 1868 and running until 1967. This shows the packing platform with the cylinder heads and parallel motion of both engine. Also seen are the upper valve chests with their Cornish drop valves. The cylinders are - high pressure 27.5" x 5' 4" and low pressure 45" x 8'. The engines used steam at 35 psi at the stop valve. The rods disappearing through a hole in the platform drive pumps in the staple wells with a 10' 8" stroke. The engines lifted in two stages with the pump at the crank end of the beam lifting water to a level 130' below the engine house and the staple well pump then completing the lift to the ground level reservoir. This maintained balance around the beam's centre.