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INTRODUCTION To many people the archetypal stationary steam engine is the beam engine. The UK was where the beam engine (initially all steam engines were beam engines) was invented and it is now where the largest number are to be found; including many workable examples. There are over 170 beam ...

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Manufacturers in the United States and mainland Europe had started building diesel locomotives from the late 19th century and in large numbers from the 1930s onwards. In the UK, most of the pre-grouping companies experimented with them. The LMS produced a successful series of diesel shunting ...

The collection of photos taken on New Year's Day, one from each contributor, has been run in the Themed Topic Forum for a number of years. Some people take active part and add their photos to the forum thread, as well as attaching the shared description to their image. Many others take the photo and ...

AUXILIARY HOSPITALS IN THE UK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 4134493 The British Red Cross WW1 Centenary Project are collecting memories and records for their work during the Great War. The Geograph Project can supplement this by providing a record of the surviving buildings that were used during this ...

INTRODUCTION This article takes a little look back at the history of postal addressing, especially the period in the 1970s when the postcodes became national. We look at post towns, postal counties and postcodes and the way these have developed. Following this, an album displays a photograph from ...

One of the books that helped to shape my life outside work was The Stationary Steam Engine by George Watkins (1968), David & Charles.When I first became interested in these wonderful machines, this book was my introduction and the information I learnt from it back in 1976 has stayed with me ever ...

At the last count there were 26 public water supply pumping stations with in situ stationary steam engines.Land drainage and sewage pumping should be considered separate topics.There is at least one external photo of all 26 on Geograph.The last one to be posted - to complete the set - was 622122 . ...