If you're in our area,
Dogdyke Pumping Station is a remote cottage with brick engine shed next door,
housing a Bradley & Craven external-condenser beam engine installed in 1856
which has been there ever since, which pumped water out of the Fens until the
1940s when it was replaced with a magnificent 7XRH Ruston & Hornsby diesel
installed in the shed next door - still part of the Water Authority's
strategic standby and maintained in absolutely immaculate order by some very
talented volunteers. Well worth a visit, it's open once a month, their
website gives the steaming dates.
