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Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SK5806 Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station On the beam floor. The construction of the... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SK5806 Rear view with the former boiler house in the foreground. The wisp of steam... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SK5806 The main engine house, built around 1890 in Arts and Crafts style. Listed Grade II.
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Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SK5806 The flywheels of the eastern pair of engines. Some of the colours are distorted... (more)
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Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SK5806 Detail on the packing floor at the top of the cylinders. Taken on a steaming day... (more)
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Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SK5806 In the basement below one pair of engines, showing the valve gear.
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Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SK5806 In the basement below one pair of engines, showing the valve gear. The variety... (more)
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Beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SK5806 Looking up from the basement below one pair of engines. The variety of light... (more)
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Hot Fish and Chips, coal fired
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SK5806 Working exhibit at an event day at Abbey Pumping Station. The van still retains... (more)
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Event day at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SK5806 Visiting attractions included the Bakanalia morris dancers, under the crane.
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Event day at Abbey Pumping Station
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SK5806 Several of the movable exhibits are on display in the open.
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Ruston Bucyrus 52B Steam Shovel
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SK5806 Built as late as 1935 it would have been among the last large steam shovels... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - kinetic art
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 This well demonstrates that all four of the mighty beam engines are running... (more)
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Abbey Pumping station - beam engine detail
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 One of the four Woolf compound beam pumping engines built in 1891. This shows... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester
by Oliver Mills geograph for square SK5806 A view of the famous pumping station, from the River Soar. Located near the... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - 'steaming day'
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 I couldn't resist a backlit shot with lots of billowing steam from the... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - four at once!
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 All four of the site's 1891 Gimson beam engines can be seen in steam... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - brass on the beam floor
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 The Syston Brass Band delivering a medley of tunes suitable for Xmas. This is an... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - boiler in a box
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 In order to run all four large beam engines together for a special event, it was... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - ooh la la
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 Historic vehicle parade with two French built Panhards to the fore. This was one... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - the big blue steam machine
by Chris Allen geograph for square SK5806 The large blue trailer is a hired in boiler built by Byworth Boilers of... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - roller and living van.
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 Aveling & Porter No. 3319 of 1894. A single cylinder 5 NHP roller weighing... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - narrow gauge railway.
by Chris Allen geograph for square SK5806 Track for a narrow gauge railway at this museum site was laid in the early... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - ornamentation
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 This shows two of the 1891 built engines by Gimson & Co of Leicester. Note... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - the Lotus position
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 Three of the iconic sports cars from Hethel in Norfolk. The middle one is an... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - railway
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 The site's steam locomotive needs a retube, so the railway is using this... (more)
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Don't panic Captain Mainwaring!
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 Home guard display at Abbey Pumping Station at the major event of 2014 with all... (more)
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Wolsey factory chimneys
by Chris Allen geograph for square SK5806 The works has very largely been flattened. The National Space Centre is seen to... (more)
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Abbey Pumping Station - frying tonight
by Chris Allen for square SK5806 The Leicester Museum of Technology's superbly restored coal-fired mobile... (more)
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