The Wanlockhead beam engine (also known as the Wanlockhead water-bucket pumping-engine or Straitsteps beam engine) is located close to the Wanlock Water...

opened burial site. The beam engine and water bucket pumps were introduced into Wanlockhead in 1745. The history on the beam engine is not certain, but accounts...

preserved example may be seen at the Straitsteps Lead Mine in Wanlockhead in Scotland. Beam engines were extensively used to power pumps on the English canal...

the Wanlockhead beam engine. Early references to mining are sparse. The earliest archival evidence relates to mining at Leadhills and Wanlockhead area...

Stone Circle A Bronze Age stone circle consisting of 19 boulders Wanlockhead Beam Engine An early-19th-century wooden water-balance pump for draining a...

solo job erecting an engine at Wanlockhead Mine, Murdoch made the first of many improvements to the standard Boulton and Watt engine by rearranging the...

Newcomen Engine. [5] - The Newcomen Atmospheric Beam Engine. [6] - Working model beam engine. [7] - Wanlockhead Water-bucket Pumping-engine. Wikimedia...

An old beam engine to dewater a lead mine at nearby Wanlockhead...

lands north of the River Dee and take samples for assay. A beam engine installed at Wanlockhead in 1870 forms the centrepiece of the Museum of Lead Mining...

Photo Wanlockhead Village Straight Steps (Cottages At Beam Engine) 55°23′58″N 3°47′08″W / 55.399325°N 3.785684°W / 55.399325; -3.785684 (Wanlockhead Village...

and engine room Museum of Lead Mining Wanlockhead Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway Mining website, mine tour, miners' cottages, beam engine, minerals...

Dacorum in Hertfordshire around 2012 Lowther Hill, at 2,377 ft high near Wanlockhead, on the boundary of Lanarkshire and Dumfriesshire, it was the centre...

early years locomotives were painted a dark green with numbers on the buffer beam. The Inverness & Nairn opened in 1855 with two 2-2-2 locomotives with four...

instead.[page needed] The endless rope for the incline was driven by two beam engines at Cowlairs, of the high pressure type, made by Kerr, Neilson and Company...

report found that the collapse was due to an internal fault in a cast-iron beam that had been fitted when the bridge had been built in 1857. A bill was introduced...

St Leonard's terminal). There are three beams, the outer beams being L-shaped with a central inverted-T beam. The bridge is one of the first surviving...

fixed to a knob on the outer flange of the wheels and by the aid of cross-beams played up and down like a pair of frame-saws, turning the wheels like so...

wider gauge and a series of sleeper beams were laid along the sides of the waggonway. Between these sleeper beams was the walking surface, made of cobblestones...

were placed on the track bed, and on them longitudinal timber beams were laid; cross-beams of Scotch fir were fixed on them, and then longitudinal planks...