Claymills Victorian Pumping Station - Open Days
15 June 2024 - 16 June 2024 , 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
15 June 2024 - 16 June 2024 , 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
This is a Non-Steaming event.
Join us on Sunday 15th and Monday 16th June for our Model Engineering Exhibition.
Admission price to be confirmed – please check on our website.
Light refreshments are available in our Stokers’ Rest Cafe.
The main pumping plant at Claymills consists of four Woolf compound, rotative, beam pumping engines. These are arranged in mirror image pairs, in two separate engine houses, with a central boiler house and chimney. The engines were built in 1885 by Gimson and Company of Leicester. All the engines are similar and the following description is limited to only one, but applicable to all.
The high pressure cylinder is 24 inch bore by 6 feet stroke and the low pressure cylinder is 38 inch bore by 8 feet stroke. Steam is distributed by means of double beat ‘Cornish’ valves, mounted in upper and lower valve chests. These are actuated from an underfloor camshaft and will be worked manually during starting. The camshaft is driven from the crankshaft by means of three pairs of bevel gears; the Watt type governor is also driven from a point in this gear train. The cylinders act on one end of the beam, via Watt’s parallel motion. The beam itself is of an interesting box section construction; consisting of wrought iron plates and angles, joined together by rivets. The beam is 26 feet 4 inches between end centres, 4 feet deep at the centre, weighs 13 tons and is carried on 12 inch diameter bearings.
Stretton
Burton upon Trent
Staffordshire
DE13 0DA
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