IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Waterworks Road, SUNDERLAND, SR2 0LW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Waterworks Road, SR2 0LW by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (31 Images Found)
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Ryhope Pumping Station - steam winch
Very few visitors are likely to ever see this single cylinder geared winch that is tucked under the entrance steps to the engine house. Built by M Coulson & Co of Spennymoor in 1890. The slide valve cylinder is c14" x 24" and the flywheel is 5' diameter. It has Stephenson link reversing motion and a worm drive to the winch drum.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.15 miles
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Ryhope Pumping Station - steam winch
Very few visitors are likely to ever see this single cylinder geared winch that is tucked under the entrance steps to the engine house. Built by M Coulson & Co of Spennymoor in 1890. The slide valve cylinder is c14" x 24" and the flywheel is 5' diameter. It has Stephenson link reversing motion and a worm drive to the winch drum.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.15 miles
6
Ryhope Pumping Station - the beam floor
This site is now a museum. This shows the beams of the two Woolf compound beam pumping engines built by R & W Hawthorn in 1868. The beams are each 33' long between end centres and weigh 22 tons. This view is from the crank end of the beams with the parallel motion operating the well pumps with a stroke of 10' 8". The connecting rod picks up inboard of the pumps with an 8' stroke to the crank.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.15 miles
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Ryhope Pumping Station
What can one say! This has been described as "The finest industrial monument in the north-east". Victorian waterworks with preserved and workable beam engines and Lancashire boilers.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.15 miles
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Ryhope Pumping Station - flywheel and governor
This building contains two Woolf compound beam engines built in 1868 by R & W Hawthorn and in use until 1967. The cylinders are 27.5" x 5'4" and 45" x 8'. The beams are 33' between end centres and weigh 22 tons. The flywheels are 24' diameter and weigh 18 tons. The engines used steam at 35 psi, ran at 10 rpm and delivered 40,000 gallons per hour against a 243' head.
This shows part of the flywheel and the Watt type conical pendulum governor. The latter is driven from the crankshaft that is below the driving floor level. The curved rack inside the flywheel's rim is for barring the engine round with a long crowbar acting against the spokes. At least one spoke is always over the rack.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.15 miles
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Ryhope Pumping Station - steam pumping engine
This shows one of the two Woolf compound beam engines built in 1868 by R & W Hawthorn and in use until 1967. The cylinders are 27.5" x 5'4" and 45" x 8'. The beams are 33' between end centres and weigh 22 tons. The flywheels are 24' diameter and weigh 18 tons. The engines used steam at 35 psi, ran at 10 rpm and delivered 40,000 gallons per hour against a 243' head.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 28 May 1989
0.15 miles