A grand ceremony will be held at Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology at noon on Saturday, 19 April to officially reopen the restored Western Springs Pumping Station Beam Engine. Media and ...
The Cornish Beam Engine (1834) was originally developed to pump out floodwater from the deep mines that are found in Cornwall. The up and down motion of the piston in the cylinder is transmitted by ...
Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste, which ...
Leicester's Abbey Pumping Station Museum will hold a family fun day this weekend to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event, on Sunday, August 20, will see the pumping station’s beam engines in ...
The Courier have teamed up with our friends at Almond Valley Heritage Trust to bring our readers stories from West Lothian’s past. This time: There’s Something in the Atmosphere at Colinshiels. Thomas ...
Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste, which ...