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Jun 16, 2016 · An emergency appeal has been launched to keep the world famous beam engines at Crofton pumping. Volunteers say £27,500 is needed if monthly steaming events are to be held in 2017. The funding is needed to repair the coal-fired Lancashire boiler at Crofton Pumping Station, which at more than 100 years old needs a significant amount of work over
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A Beam engine works very slowly - so it's movements can be followed with ease. Moving so slowly it requires only a small boiler. The Stuart No. 500 boiler exactly suits it. In designing the engine have had in mindful the time the absolute beginner. It is …
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Jan 10, 2020 · This DVD closely follows a working day at Crofton in 2001: preparing and stoking the boiler, warming the engines through, starting and running both engines by hand, and then allowing them to run self-acting. Insights into procedures and many details of equipment are shown such as the Cornish valve gear, condensers and water pumps.
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Dec 28, 2019 · The cylinder heads of the two engines. The Crofton pumping station retains the same layout as used in Cornwall where the building is a structural part of the engine – the rocking beam is supported by a wall across the building. The Crofton pumping station. The boiler is in the lower portion at the front, the engines are in the higher portion
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The pump on the No.2 engine has been removed, but the No.1 engine subsidiary pump still works and is now used to prime the main No.2 pump which is difficult to prime on its own. Both steam engines were in regular use until the 1950s, when the poor condition of the boiler house chimney forced the removal of the top 36 feet (11m).
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Crofton Beam Engines Boiler Appeal. If Crofton is to steam again in 2022, work needs to be done over the winter on their boiler, which will cost around £30,000. Find out more here Discover Crofton Beam Engines' story with the video tour with Phil Harding. Opening Times
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Crofton Beam Engines even offer unique steam experiences, where you can light and stoke the boiler, work with the Duty Engineer, enter areas not normally seen by the public, prepare the engines for steaming, and finally take control of the oldest, working beam engine in the world.
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Crofton Beam Engines, owned and operated by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, is a unique Grade 1 listed site steeped in our industrial heritage. It is still capable of doing the work it started over 200 years ago - keeping the top levels of the Kennet and Avon Canal supplied with water. But the boiler which produces the steam to power the engines needs repairs.
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Cast-iron beam of the 1812 Boulton & Watt Engine at Crofton The Great Western Railway took over the Canal in 1852 and further modifications were made over the following years, a new chimney in 1856, repairs to the 1812 engine after a major breakdown in 1896, new boilers in 1893 and 1903, a rebuilt boiler house roof in the early years of the
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Lighting Crofton Beam Engines boiler for the first time since 2019. Although we are not currently steaming. This marks the next phase of Crofton Beam Engines returning to steam in 2021. The boiler is being slowly warmed up over the next couple of …
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Boiler Appeal. Please help keep Crofton steaming in 2022! Crofton Beam Engines is a unique site steeped in our industrial heritage. It is still capable of doing the work it started over 200 years ago – keeping the top levels of the Kennet and Avon Canal supplied with water.
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Please help keep Crofton steaming in 2022! Crofton Beam Engines, owned and operated by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, is a unique Grade 1 listed site steeped in our industrial heritage. It is still capable of doing the work it started over 200 years ago - keeping the top levels of the Kennet and Avon Canal supplied with water. But the boiler which produces the steam to power the …
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Sep 15, 2021 · Crofton – Last steaming days of the year on 25/26 Sept – and appeal for funds to keep the engines in steam. 15 September 2021 // by Neil Goodwin. A welder from H A McEwen working on the Crofton Boiler in 2017. After a successful 'Steaming Season' where the 200 year old Boulton & Watt beam engine was coaxed back into life in June, after an eighteen month …
Get PriceThe Boiler House roof is leaking and its roof lantern is in a poor state; damp of the 'Our Crofton Story' fund-raising appeal. Peter Turvey Chair Crofton Branch & Trustee, Kennet & Avon Canal Trust Crofton Beam Engines Crofton, Marlborough, Wilts SN8 3DW Tel: 01672 870300 A branch of The Kennet and Avon Canal
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The engine house, built by John Rennie, contains the one surviving Lancashire boiler, fired by all-in house coal (unsorted), and alongside is a display of old agricultural steam engines, gently ticking over. Both beam engines are now in use, alternately, and still pump water into the leat. These are an 1812 Boulton and Watt,
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Sep 13, 2021 · Crofton Beam Engines Boiler Repair Appeal. September 13, 2021 mikenevell. Crofton Beam Engines is one of a handful of sites in England which still runs its stationary beam engines on steam and still performs its original function in its original location. Built over 200 years ago it keeps the top levels of the Kennet and Avon Canal supplied with water.
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Sep 15, 2021 · Hopefully the Beam Engines will be steaming again next year but major mainenance will need to be carried out over the winter by a team of specialist contractors – H A McEwen – who have carried out work on the boiler previously and are the leading UK contractor for work on heritage boilers. A Boiler Appeal has launched and all donations are
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The Boilers - Crofton Beam Engines
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Jul 15, 2021 · Crofton Beam Engines fires up their boiler for public steaming again! There was great excitement at Crofton in June when the boiler was fired up for a public steaming. The first time since 2019. Over 200 visitors saw the 1812 Boulton and Watt beam engine perform the role it was designed for in the 19th century.
Get PriceNov 15, 2015 · Pre COVID 19, Phil Harding visited Crofton Beam Engines, after visiting boiler house first to find out how the steam is raised. Now Phil is in the beam gallery the top of the engine house. To see how the beams transfer the forces from the pistons across to the pumps in this magnificent 200 year old heritage canal pumping station works.
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May 30, 2021 · Learn why the pumping station and Kennet and Avon Canal was built and investigate its vast history. Be part of the action by watching and walking within touching distance of the 200 year old cast iron beam engines throughout the Engine House. Discover how the engines work with the boiler and pumps as a team lift water 40ft from the canal level.
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Sep 13, 2021 · Crofton Beam Engines Boiler Repair Appeal. September 13, 2021 mikenevell. Crofton Beam Engines is one of a handful of sites in England which still runs its stationary beam engines on steam and still performs its original function in its original location. Built over 200 years ago it keeps the top levels of the Kennet and Avon Canal supplied
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Crofton Beam Engines Boiler Appeal. If Crofton is to steam again in 2022, work needs to be done over the winter on their boiler, which will cost around £30,000. Find out more here Discover Crofton Beam Engines' story with the video tour with Phil Harding. Opening Times
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Feb 13, 2017 · Repair work is under way on a boiler which powers the pumping engines on the Kennet and Avon canal. The Crofton Beam Engines were built to supply water to the highest point of the canal south of
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Crofton Beam Engines, Marlborough: Hours, Address, Crofton Beam Engines Reviews: 4.5/5 and in 1810, a second Boulton and Watt was ordered and installed in 1812. Water for the huge boilers was supplied from the springs at Wilton to the well on site. was purchased by the K&A Canal Trust from British Waterways for £75. An appeal was
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The pumping station is in daily use today, but usually driven by electric pumps, however on a number of days each year the boilers are stoked up and the original beam engine comes to life. There are two beam engines each able to lift around a ton of water on each stroke and running at around 11 strokes per minute.
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Our particular focus on Crofton also continued in 2016. The need for major boiler works required up to £45,000 of funding and the team set to with imagination and energy to raise that. Crofton was invaded by hundreds of knitted boiler-bears and the site saw its first ever boiler bears picnic, featuring the branch chairman in a bear suit.
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The boiler at Crofton is very important as it provides power for the beam engines that supply water on the Kennet and Avon Canal. The boiler at Crofton is of the Lancashire type boiler. These boilers have two 28 feet (8.5 m) long furnace tubes passing through water which continue through the boiler and exit at the far end into the flue system.
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Sep 12, 2021 · It was a great opportunity to spread the word among our visitors about the launch of the 2021 Boiler Appeal. If we are to steam again in 2022, we need to carry out work on the boiler this winter, which will cost around £30,000. Crofton Beam Engines are excited to offer children between the ages of 7 and 11 the opportunity to take part in
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Lighting Crofton Beam Engines boiler for the first time since 2019. Although we are not currently steaming. This marks the next phase of Crofton Beam Engines returning to steam in 2021. The boiler is being slowly warmed up over the next couple of …
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