The Wanlockhead beam engine (also known as the Wanlockhead water-bucket pumping-engine or Straitsteps beam engine) is located close to the Wanlock Water below Church Street on the B797 in the village of Wanlockhead, Parish of Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The site is in the Lowther Hills above the Mennock Pass, a mile south of Leadhills in the Southern Uplands.[1] This is the only remaining original water powered beam engine in the United Kingdom and still stands at its original location.[2][3] It ceased working circa 1910[2] after installation circa 1870.[1]
It is a Scheduled Industrial Monument (SM90310), considered to be of national importance[4] and the principles by which it functioned were originally derived from attempts at producing a perpetual motion machine.[5]
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The Wanlockheadbeamengine (also known as the Wanlockhead water-bucket pumping-engine or Straitsteps beamengine) is located close to the Wanlock Water...
opened burial site. The beamengine and water bucket pumps were introduced into Wanlockhead in 1745. The history on the beamengine is not certain, but accounts...
preserved example may be seen at the Straitsteps Lead Mine in Wanlockhead in Scotland. Beamengines were extensively used to power pumps on the English canal...
the Wanlockheadbeamengine. 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 WanlockheadBeamEngine 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...
lands north of the River Dee and take samples for assay. A beamengine installed at Wanlockhead in 1870 forms the centrepiece of the Museum of Lead Mining...
instead.[page needed] The endless rope for the incline was driven by two beamengines at Cowlairs, of the high pressure type, made by Kerr, Neilson and Company...
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...
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...
and engine room Museum of Lead Mining Wanlockhead Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway Mining website, mine tour, miners' cottages, beamengine, minerals...
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...
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, which was made...
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