This detailed 4K footage was taken during an open day in April 2024. It features the beautiful and gigantic Prince Consort Beam Engine running under steam.

Victoria, Prince Consort, Albert-Edward and Alexandra Originally single cylinder engines from the James Watt Co. in Birmingham, they were all substantially upgraded to 3 cylinder engines in 1895-1901 by the Benjamin Goodfellow Co from Hyde in Cheshire. At this time a front addition was built onto the engine house. This addition housed two triple expansion engines, there to help with the pumping whilst the beam engines were upgraded.

The beam engines were seeing very little use by the 1930’s due to the majority of the pumping beingdone by more efficient engines and pumps housed in other buildings. When the 1895 triple expansion engines were removed in the late 1940’s and subsequently replaced with diesel engines driving very efficient centrifugal pumps, the beam engines days were all but numbered. The beam engine house was abandoned completely by the mid 1950’s.