An old water pumping station in America

As a child I was always facinated by anything mechanical. Pulling everything to pieces to see how it worked.

Today at a young 71 yrs I still have the same methodology.Tonight i saw this video & thought i would post a link to it. If you have nearly 1 1/2 hours of your life spare then it is well worth a watch. The guy who has rekindled this steam engine plant is so passionate about every thing he does & explains in great detail inc drawings how this 2 stage system actually works. He even shows the lighting system used back in the 1900's.

Steve.

Wonderful, the passion and dedication of this fellow is hard to put into words. Thaks for this Steve. Forncett Industrial Steam Museum, Near Norwich has a huge triple expansion engine that was a water works engine. It will be in steam on the 1st Oct and it's also their Model engineers day ! Noel.

Top class content. And the interviewer was asking relevant questions, and styled to make the subject more accessible to those without any knowledge of the subject.

Thanks for the link.

Ches.

Thanks, Steve !

I’ve only watched the first few minutes, so far … but it is obviously essential viewing for later today.

MichaelG.

Thanks Steve, that was absolutely amazing well worth the 1 1/2 hours, not wasted at all.

Gren.

Thanks for the link like Jason it's one for later

H

Absolutely glorious

Thanks again, Steve

… and it’s good to see some [comparative] youngsters so devoted to it.

MichaelG.

Yes I watch quite a lot of this sort of video. Only watch tv for car & bike racing these days.

I thought he had a lot of traits like Guy Martin in a way. In looks too. He definately knew his onions.

Steve.

+ 1 for a visit to the Forncett St Mary Steam Museum on 1st October to see the full size steam engines running, as Noel says the huge triple expansion Worthington Simpson will be running and also it is model engineers day so there will be some exhibits on display, usually Andrew has parts of his steam engines on show so you see them in the flesh.

Emgee

Edited By Emgee on 23/09/2023 21:58:39