Ryhope Engines

Ryhope Engines Museum is steaming this weekend.
The R&W Hawthorn engines here pumped water
from limestone 250' below from 1868 until 1967.

The lobby area has open moving piston rods
connected to the beams above

The intermediate level  - with LP & HP cylinder tops .....

...... & valve chests .....

..... for both engines, which work independently

The upper storey .....

..... enables views of the beams .....

..... which rock quietly & almost without vibration

The boiler house has 3 Lancashire boilers .....

...... manufactured by Galloways

The LH boiler is out of use, this middle one is used alternately with the rightmost

The catchment of the Sunderland & South Shields Water Co.