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  • Abbey Mills Pumping Station  - Ornate London pumping station built by Joseph Bazalgette to lift sewage 40 feet so that it could flow into the Thames. Account of a visit with photographs.
  • The Bratch Pumping Station  - One of only 50 remaining steam pumping stations in England and built in 1895 by Bilston Corporation. The engines, history, technical information and steaming days. [Wombourne, South Staffordshire].
  • British Engineerium  - A restored working Victorian pumping station and museum of mechanical antiquities, recently saved from dispersal.
  • Brook Pumping Station  - Lifts foul water from the lowest part of Chatham to the main sewer. History, description and pictures, engines and location.
  • Claymills Victorian Pumping Station  - With four beam engines dating from 1885 to 1937, boilers, a steam driven workshop, forge and a 1930's dynamo house. Includes technical details, sewage farm, online tour and steaming dates. [Burton on Trent].
  • Crossness Pumping Station  - Built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of Victorian London's main sewerage system. History, restoration and information for visitors.
  • Dock Road Edwardian Pumping Station  - Features fully operational gas fired engines and pumps in their original setting in Northwich, Cheshire. Description, opening dates and times.
  • Dogdyke Steam Pumping Station  - Built in 1856 to drain a large area of farmland and located near Tattershall in Lincolnshire. History, photographs and open days.
  • Kew Bridge Steam Museum  - Built in the 19th century to supply London with water and housing the world's largest collection of steam pumping engines, many of which can be seen working every weekend.
  • Langford Pumping Station  - Text and photographs from a guide as written in 1948. Southend, Essex.
  • Leawood Pump  - Near Matlock in Derbyshire and used to maintain water levels in the the Cromford Canal. Covers history, the pumphouse, engine and pump, technical specification, and open days.
  • Mill Meece Pumping Station  - North Staffordshire pumping station leased to a preservation trust. Guided tour online, location and open days.
  • The Museum of Power  - Housed in the Steam Pumping Station at Langford in Essex. Exhibits and demonstrates working examples of power sources of all types and chronicles the major roles that they have played in history.
  • Papplewick Pumping Station  - Victorian water works built to supply Nottingham and the only one in the Midlands to be preserved as a complete working water pumping station. With water history, facts and figures, photographs, and dates and times for visitors.
  • Tees Cottage Pumping Station  - 1949 pumping station that supplied piped water from the Tees to Darlington and Teeside. Introduction, news and open days.
  • Westonzoyland Pumping Station  - The home of Somerset's earliest steam-powered pumping station and now a small museum displaying stationary steam engines and exhibits of land drainage history.
  • Willingham (West Fen) Pumping Station  - Pumping station near Willingham in Cambridge. Transcript of a guide with photographs, plans and associated tools.
 
 
 
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