Straffan Steam Museum, Co Kildare, Ireland
Selection of stationary steam engines from around Ireland, running under steam during the regular Sunday afternoon event, July 2012.
Steam Museum - Straffan
Wondering where to take that next spin out? Go to the steam museum for something different! Time your arrival for ~3pm on Sundays or Bank Holiday Mondays and the engines will be running with live steam. See steam-museum.com
Straffan Steam Museum
Several exhibits under steam.
Steam Museum Straffan
Culture Night 2011, Straffan, steam operated machine in work.
Straffan Steam Museum
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Ellenroad Steam Museum
Two of the three main engines at the Ellenroad Steam Museum;
Horizontal Twin Tandem Compound Mill Engine Victoria & Alexandra
1907 Marsden Horizontal Single Cylinder Mill Engine
The1841 John Petrie & Company Rotative Beam Engine is near the end of an overhaul and was test steamed during the day but I missed it.
Markham Grange Steam Museum
The various engines working in the Markham Grange Steam Museum;
1874 Needham, Qualter, Hall & Co Horizontal Single Cylinder Engine
J Samuel White Inverted Vertical Twin Cylinder Compound Engine No.1239
Burton Horizontal Engine
Joseph Evans & Sons Banjo Pump No.25630
Robey Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine No.27733 & John Thom Vertical Ram Pump
1884 Thornewill & Warham Horizontal Engines No.524 & 525
1909 Pollit & Wigzell Horizontal Tandem Compound Mill Engine Agnes
1926 George Mills & Co Steam Pump
1907 Hepple & Sons Side Lever Marine Engine (electric drive)
1902 Robey & Co Horizontal Twin Engine Nos.22110 & 22111
Marshall & Sons Single Cylinder Horizontal Engine No.77243 & Triple Throw Pump
triple expansion machine steam museum Straffan
Running triple expansion machine at the steam museum in Straffan
STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon. (Official Video)
This is the official promotional video for STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, Wiltshire.
STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway is housed in a beautifully restored Grade II railway building in the heart of the former Swindon railway works.
Situated right opposite the Swindon Designer Outlet, the museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Railway, often referred to by historians and railway fans as 'God's Wonderful Railway'.
The pioneering vision and engineering genius of Isambard Kingdom Brunel led to the Great Western Railway network becoming regarded as the most advanced in the world.
STEAM
Kemble Drive
Swindon
SN2 2TA
E-mail: adminsteam@swindon.gov.uk
Tel: 01793 466637
Ellenroad Steam Museum
Ellenroad Engine House has the only fully-working cotton mill engine with its original steam plant. Here you
can see the 3,000 horsepower Victoria and Alexandra (1892), a coal-fired Lancashire boiler, the
newly-restored Marsden Engine and the Whitelees beam engine (now running for 169 years!)
Bolton Steam Museum
120 years ago,Lancashire produced more than half the world's supply of cotton textiles. Hundreds of mills were busy spinning and weaving and bleach works and dye works were thriving. Steam engines drove all the machinery in the mills and there were probably as many as 10,000 engines at work, mostly built by local engineering companies. But over the next 80 years the industry declined as production moved overseas and by the late 1960s only about a few hundred mills still survived, with more mill closures being announced every week.
The NMES was formed in 1966 by a small but extremely dedicated band of enthusiasts who decided that something had to be done to preserve the steam engines from the textile industries of Lancashire and Yorkshire before they were all scrapped. Most established museums at that time did not have significant collections of this type of machinery and the work of volunteer organisations, such as the Northern Mill Engine Society, was important in ensuring that a reasonably representative sample of engines has been preserved.
The objective was to collect and preserve as many different types of engine as possible to demonstrate the development of the technology. As a result of this initiative, a number of rare and interesting engines were acquired, often donated by their original owners. The initial idea was to preserve the engines in-situ but as the mills were demolished and sites redeveloped, this became impossible and so the engines had to be dismantled and removed piece-by-piece, sometimes with great difficulty from almost inaccessible engine rooms.
With the generous support of the Mason family, the site owners, the Society was very grateful to be offered premises at Atlas Mills, Mornington Road, Bolton, where the rebuilding of the engines could begin.
After some 15 years work, a museum was opened to the public in 1983 in one of the original engine-houses of Atlas No 3 Mill where 5 of the rebuilt engines could be seen working in steam. It was decided to call the museum The Bolton Steam Museum and over the following 7 years it became a well-known attraction in the area.
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Powerup at Kent, Ct at the CAMA Steam Museum
America entered the industrial age powered by water and steam and this museum in Kent, Ct. run by volunteers has preserved for us the living history of steam. They fire up the steam engines twice a year once in spring (this one) and the big one in fall.
the entire series of pix and videos from this event.
Kew Bridge Steam Museum Infernal Combustion Weekend: Water Wheel & Stationary Engines
The museum 1902 Hindley Waterwheel driving a three ram pump
1908 National L Type Gas Engine No.16825 driving a 1920 Pearn 3 Throw Pump
Triple Throw Pump in the small engine gallery this is driven by a 1895 Benham & Co Horizontal Engine
Hornsby Stationary Engine
Markham Grange Steam Museum on a Steaming Day
General view of the Steam Museum on a typical Sunday steaming day.
A marine steam engine with propellor
A Steam engine from a ship in Straffan Steam Museum, County Kidare Ireland
A steam power unit from a former linen dyers factory
A steam unit used in a former linen dyers factory, now in Straffan Steam Museum County Kildare Ireland
Ruston 6VE start up at Internal Fire Museum, July 2012
Very fortunate to arrive just as the Ruston 6VE was being started.
Forncett Steam up August 2015
So I met Rowan recently at another event and went along today to take a look at his museum as they steam up on the first Sunday of the month in summer. I enjoyed the tour so much I did not take much video but here is what I did shoot and there are a couple of other 3d clips as well I'll be posting these shortly
Kew Bridge Steam Museum -- Grand Junction 90 inch Cornish Beam Engine
The Grand Junction 90 inch Cornish beam engine was built in 1846 in Cornwall. For nearly one hundred years until 1943 it was in operation at Kew pumping water for London. In 1976 it was restored and returned to steam. It continues to be run at Kew on selected steam days throughout the year.
Cylinder diameter 90, the beam weighs 32 tons, each stroke lifts 472 gallons of water -- 6.4 million gallons each 24 hours. A Lancashire boiler built in 1927 provides steam at 40psi.
The term Cornish refers to the operating cycle of these engines. Some were made in Cornwall and many were used to pump out the constant ingress of water that affected Cornish mines. The main characteristic of a Cornish engine is that pumping is done by a falling weight which is lifted by the engine. This weight is positioned above the pump, which is linked to a beam, with the piston attached to the opposite end of this beam. The weight is lifted by a combination of steam pressure above, and vacuum below, the piston. During the pumping stroke, as the weight falls, the piston returns to the top of the cylinder because an equilibrium valve opens to allow steam to pass from above to below the piston. The speed of movement varies during the cycle, making a Cornish engine both exciting to watch and to drive.
Kew Bridge Steam Museum has the largest collection of Cornish engines in the world, including this, the world's largest 90 inch working single cylinder beam engine