50 inch "Bull" engine built by Harvey & Co., Hayle, Cornwall, in 1876-7 for the iron shaft at Severn Tunnel Pumping Station, Sudbrook, Monmouthshire
Bottom beam, rear (nearest towards pit)
Column
Transom
Cylinder beam, front
Cylinder beam rear
Guide frame for piston rod cap
Guide frame for piston rod cap, right
Beam to support guide frames item 7 & 8
Cylinder with nozzles and bottom cover
Beam forming cill of weigh frame
Weigh post
Weigh post right with frame bolts and nuts and studs
Head of weigh frame, with gland for plug rod
Bridging joist for working floor
Common joists for working floor with wooden bearing pieces
Common joists for working floor with wooden bearing pieces
Condenser cistern with condenser and air pump complete with bucket
Length of feed pipe marked GWR Co
Eduction pipe
Main steam valve
Cylinder cover
Beam with gudgeon stool
Piston, complete with piston rod
Piston rod cap with gib and cotter for piston rod
Plug rod with tappets
Cataract on stand
Plug rod guide
4 cylinder holding down bolts with nuts & washers
Stay for parts 7 & 8 with nut & washer
2 rods for piston rod cap complete
2 slippers for piston rod cap guides
Stop for pump rod
Keepers, bolts and nuts
Piston rod & gland
4 bolts of 9 nuts for fixing piston rod gland
Cast cleading plate for cylinder bottom
11 checker? rolled tread-plates for working floor
Cast side plates
5 cast side plates and top plate
4 cast valve bonnets
7 cast brackets and 6 stanchions
8 cast treadplates for the gallery around the cylinder
Three arbors from plug frame with all levers
3 levers from arbors to weigh shaft
3 hanging rods with weights
3 rods from weighshaft to valve spindles
3 catches from plug frame
Spindle, handwheel and bracket for steam valve
Cataract loop and 2 guides for cataract rod
Spindle bracket & lever for blowing through valve
Column spindel with crank
Cock on pipe
Components for 50 inch "Bull" Engine
1876-1877
Components for 50 inch "Bull" Engine
1876-1877
3 swinging guides for rods
Brass kerb to surround plug rod on working floor
Corner from base of column
Iron staircase
10 handrail stantions from stairs item 60
Staircase Handrail for 50 inch "Bull" Engine
Rail for Pump Pit
Fragments of wooden cylinder cleading
Brass cleading ring for top of cylinder
Rod for 50 inch "Bull" Engine
1876-1877
Handrails for 50 inch "Bull" Engine
Cylinder cleading boards
Pressure gauges
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Details
- Category:
- Motive Power
- Object Number:
- 1969-2
- type:
- engines
- credit:
- British Railways, Western
