2011
TL8308 : Museum of Power - gauge board
taken 12 years ago, near to Langford, Essex, England
Museum of Power - gauge board
Langford Steam Pumping Station (Museum of Power) :: TL8309
Former late 1920s steam pumping station built to supply fresh water to the growing population of Southend. The station housed 3 (originally 2) Lilleshall vertical triple expansion steam engines. Sadly only one survives but it, and the remaining buildings, provide an excellent setting for the museum of power. The museum houses a nice and precise collection of steam and internal combustion engines.
It is recommended (by myself) to combine a visit here with the nearby Beeleigh water mill (in the same grid square). Thus seeing two in situ steam engines, one from the 1830s and one from the 1930s!