tarboat's photos with the keyword: beam engine

The disused winding engine house at Hemingfield Colliery once contained a beam winding engine dating from c1842. Inside the cast iron support for the beam and associated bearing mounts remain, along with the spring beam. The drive would have passed through the wall to the right to the rope drum. The arc of stonework marks the blocked hole for this.

I always find watching a beam engine in action to be a very emotional experience. Yesterday I was able to see two working side by side. Claymills pumping station, Burton-on-Trent. 'C' Engine: Two cylinder condensing Woolf compound rotative beam engine built by Gimsons of Leicester in 1885. Driving two ram pumps and capable of pumping about 3 million gallons of sewage per day through a head of 110ft.