[modeleng] Re: Couplings Now O/T

Youse guys sure are blessed to be able to have and to
see in operation these wonderful old machines!!

Al Messer
--- peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> There is also the  Crofton Beam Engines on the
> Kennet and Avon canal. The
> 1812 engine there is the oldest working steam engine
> in the world. The
> Birmingham museum claim that their engine from, I
> think, Ocker Hill, is the
> oldest, but it justs goes up and down - it doesn't
> actually work, while
> Crofton pumps water. When Crofton is in steam, the
> Waterways people shut
> off the electric pumps, so it really does work! The
> other engine there is a
> new one - 1846. Can't remember how much it shifts
> each stroke - I ueed to
> know. It takes about 25 minutes to shift enough
> water to fill a lock -
> about 65000 gallons.
> 
> Several of the people who started the Kew collection
> came from Crofton,
> funnily enough. Crofton is also in very nice
> countryside - I had my wedding
> reception there.
> 
> Peter Chadwick
> Swindon
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