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Papplewick Pumping Station

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#1

nope, not a train, but still steam, of a kind that you might not be too familiar with…

Gentlemen, I give you an astonishingly beautiful Temple of Steam - Papplewick Municipal Water Pumping Station, Nottingham…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86rjnQ__KU

Feel free to explore than MANY movies on YouTube of this remarkable structure, still in full working order.

This one is for Fred, who cheered me up as only Fred can do.

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Stretham Great Engine Boys [another steam pumping station just down the road from us here in rural East Anglia]

#2

Terry,

That was really interesting to me, since I live on a street named Nottingham Forest Circle.

#3

I hope you took the opportunity to lool the other videos - we’ve been there a couple of times, and have alwys been impressed. They also hold a Steam Fayre there ever year - that, too, is a movie.

Besp

tac

Ottawa Valley GRS

#4

Cool - Thanks for posting.

#5

This one is not far from me - I often go there and stand mesmerised for a while - a bit like a dog watching TV, I guess…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1tgqJh0Lk

Loads more around this neck of the woods, on account that much of this part of the flat bits of yUK is below sea level. If it hadn’t been for the Dutch engineer Vermuyden, it would still REALLY be the Isle of Ely.

Even our ride-on trains are sited BSL, as I’ve mentioned before…

tac

Ottawa Valley GRS