The Abbey Pumping Station
Corporation Road Leicester

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The crank on No 3 Engine

 

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Cylinder head of no 3 engine

 

 

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One of the massive force pumps

 

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The four massive beams

 

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A small vertical wall-mounted  engine by Gimsons of Leicester                     

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The original boiler feed pump.

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Our two diesel locomotives on the site railway

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Flywheels on engines 3 and 4

 

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Cylinder heads of engines 1 and 2

 

 

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The valve rodding and a condenser

 

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The council wished to be remembered

 

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A view of the pump rods

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Our only surviving Lancashire boiler

 

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The A Frame beam engine of about 1840

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The control panel for engines 3 and 4

 

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No 4 under repair with the low pressure valve removed

 

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A view of the rachet driven barring apparatus on No 3 engine

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Another view of the beams

 

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The engine that drove the mechanical stokers

 

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The Hotchkiss Circulator on the Lancashire Boiler.

 

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35 mm cine projectors

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