List of pumping stations[]
There are countless thousands of pumping stations throughout the world. The following is a list of those described in this encyclopaedia. (Generally to be listed they should be of historical engineering significance, ie. steam powered or now a museum or listed etc).
Australia[]
A Number of Victorian era stations have been preserved with old equipment in (often built in the UK & installed originally in the colonial days).
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United Kingdom[]
In the UK, during the Victorian Era, there was a fashion for public buildings to feature highly ornate architecture. Consequently, a considerable number of former pumping stations have been listed and preserved. The majority were originally steam-powered, and where the steam engines are still in situ, many of the sites have since re-opened as museum attractions.
Canal water supply[]
- Claverton Pumping Station, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Bath (water-powered)
- Cobb's Engine House, ruin near southern portal of Netherton Tunnel
- Crofton Pumping Station, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Great Bedwyn
- Leawood Pump House, on the Cromford Canal in Derbyshire
- Smethwick Engine, now removed from original site to Birmingham Thinktank
- New Smethwick Pumping Station (now part of Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre)
Groundwater supply[]
Used to pump water from a well into a reservoir
- Bestwood Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire
- Boughton Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire
- Bratch Pumping Station, Staffordshire
- Mill Meece Pumping Station, in Staffordshire
- Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire (pumped from a 200 ft deep well)
- Selly Oak Pumping Station, Birmingham (building converted to an electricity sub-station)
Hydraulic power station[]
- Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London (converted to electricity, now an arts centre and restaurant)
Land drainage[]
- Dogdyke Pumping Station lincolnshire
- Pinchbeck Engine, near Spalding (preserved beam engine and scoop wheel)'
- Pode Hole pumping station, near Spalding, Lincolnshire (formerly steam beam engines, no longer present)
- Prickwillow Engine House, near Ely, Cambridgeshire (now the Museum of Fenland Drainage)
- Stretham Old Engine, Stretham, Cambridgeshire
- Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Somerset
Public water supply[]
Used to pump drinking water from a reservoir into a water supply system.
- Blagdon Pumping Station, Chew Valley, Somerset
- Edgbaston Waterworks, Birmingham (probably not a 'museum' site)
- Kempton Park Pumping Station, London
- Kew Bridge Pumping Station, Kew Bridge, London
- Langford Pumping Station ("Museum of Power"), Essex
- Ryhope Engines Museum, Sunderland
- Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington
Sewage[]
- Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester
- Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in North London. (steam engines no longer present)
- Claymills Pumping Station, near Burton upon Trent
- Coleham Pumping Station, Coleham, near Shrewsbury
- Crossness Pumping Station, in South London
- Dock Road Edwardian Pumping Station, in Northwich, Cheshire (Gas engines. Built 1913)
- Low Hall Pumping Station, Walthamstow, North London
- Markfield Beam Engine, Tottenham, London
Underground railway[]
- Brunel Engine House (now Brunel Museum), Rotherhithe, East London (extracted water from Thames Tunnel; engine no longer present)
- Shore Road Pumping Station, Birkenhead, Wirral (originally steam, now electric; extracts water from the rail tunnel under the River Mersey)
Hong Kong[]
- Public water supply
- Engineer's Office of the Former Pumping Station, Hong Kong
Iraq[]
- Agricultural drainage
- Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station, Dhi Qar Province
Netherlands[]
- Land drainage
- Cruquius pumping station (Operational, but no longer steam-powered.)
- – an 8-beam Cornish engine with the largest cylinder (144 in (3.5m) diameter) in the world.
- ir.D.F. Woudagemaal, (ir. Wouda pumping station) (world's largest steam-powered pumping station)