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Stationary engines

These engines tell the story of stationary power application on the railway, whether winding and haulage, driving or pumping, and represent the use of both steam and hydraulic power.

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Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Weatherhill Incline Winding Engine, 1833

1833
Swash plate engine, horizontal, two cylinder high-speed engine of novel and unorthodox design, believed to have been the work of G. Messenger, Superintendent of Marine Engineering to the London, Chatham and Dover Railway prior to 1899, originally used in Dover Docks.

Swash plate engine, Dover Docks

Turntable engine, locomotive vacuum operated, by Cowans Sheldon, Carlisle, c1950.

Turntable engine

1950
Regulator valve from Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway, Weatherhill Incline Winding Engine, 1833 (vertical).

Regulator valve from winding engine

1833
Length of steel hawser with crimped eyelet, for rope haulage.

Steel hawser

Slip coupling, for use with rope haulage, D-link welded type, 20th century.

Slip coupling

Slip coupling, for use with rope haulage, D-link forged type, 19th century.

Slip coupling

Hot Air Engine, ex Newton Abbot.

Hot Air Engine

Hydraulic engine, designed by William Armstrong, c.1840, no provenance, probably used to operate a railway swing bridge.

Hydraulic engine

1840
Beam Engine, Soho beam engine ex Shildon Works.

Beam engine from Shildon Works

Pulley, Liverpool & Manchester Railway, return pulley wheel and bearing block from rope haulage system, from Edgehill Stationary Engine.

Pulley, Liverpool & Manchester Railway