Crossness Rotative Beam Engine "Prince Consort" Running Under Steam - Detailed 4K Footage
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- 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. 
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Machinery was art. So impressive!
Yeah. Even those scalloped decks plates. Pretty amazing.
Almost makes one proud to be human
A purely utilitarian device , but the detailing of the structure is awe inspiring . A cathedral of engineering.
Even engineering spaces were decorated in a manner similar to Victorian homes.
Could've done w/o the music. Just the sound of the beast!
The moment I seen this beauty, I fell in love with it, It's majestic, design, and operation, brought tears of envy to my eyes, Thank's for sharing.
The moment I saw this, not seen.
You're most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Majestic. That word crossed my mind too. Beautiful stuff!
The thing is so beautiful! Words fail.
Here in Auckland NZ we still have a beam engine housed in its original mid-Victorian brick pumphouse, as the centrepiece of Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT). Commissioned in March 1877. Coal-fired boilers operated a steam engine driving a 16.3 tonne, 6.25 m diameter flywheel and 7.3 m beam operated twin pumps raising up to 13,600 cubic metres of water per day to the Ponsonby Reservoir.
Remember seeing the insides of that building and the engine when it was derelict many years ago. My father was the site safety officer when he retired from the Kent Fire Brigade. Absolutely fantastic to see the building and engine restored. Would love to visit when I am back down that way.
That was absolutely breath taking! I feel like I was just watching a ballet in some grand palace... yet it's a steam engine in a sewage pumping station... I just don't get why we can't have such incredible spaces today...
Thanks for your feedback :-) I procrastinated over whether or not to add background music, as I worried that some may find it distracting. Hopefully I got the balance right!
" I just don't get why we can't have such incredible spaces today..." It ain't rocket science. It's because it costs a lot of money. There's no reason we couldn't have ornamental cast iron architectural details in today's sewerage lift stations ... except that it costs a lot of money, and there's not really any point in it. As a taxpayer, I'd be pretty pissed off if my municipality spent a couple of extra million dollars of tax dollars putting decoration inside a sewerage lift station, that was only going to be seen by the employees of the sewerage utility.
You really don't get it, do you.
I love these Victorian cathedrals of engineering.
Don't want the music, just the sound of the engines please
The music is barely audible through most of the video. The engine is far louder than the music!
The engine is music on it's own.
Steam has an elegance that cannot be topped by electric or diesel. The visible slow moving parts.
Super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's interesting that they play classical music in the engine room
Hard hat mania on display! I did not realise that stationary steam engines could leap up and fall on to onlookers heads. I suppose if one of those massive beams did fall from the ceiling the hard hats would protect people from being crushed.
And there's more "oop north" too ! Visit the Bolton Steam Museum to see all varieties of steam engines built for the cotton mills. However, one of the last mills to be built, Kearsley Mill, in Prestolee village, built 1906, although steam-powered, the steam drove steam turbines connected to generators. The mill machinery was all powered by electric motors. The electric age had started and steam turbines are still used to generate it.
Thank you 😊😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Built with no computers ! 😊😊
Fantastic video, but sadly ruined by the background music.
I’m so sorry I ruined it!
Great video.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing.
The Victorians did not in any way lack ambition. 👍
These days its just NIMBY
100 year old still going strong even when our 21st century electric cars die or catch fire.
When investors were not bean counters and took actual pride to build magnificent machines the result was astounding. Imagine the replacement in a shipping container placed randomly by sewage company nowadays.
Great Video 😊
Such mechanical beauty, for pumping and dumping the most mundane and fundamental human waste products directly into the Thames at every high tide.
Profi-Video 👍
Is it just me, or are those hard hats worn inside just a bit weird? As if that's gonna save you from anything 😂
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I thought that too but when climbing the narrow stairs to the upper level and smacking my head on a steel beam, I could see why we were given them.
Been there, it's so impressive. Excellent video but could do with a commentary instead of the music, though I understand if you are just a casual visitor you may not have the necessary knowledge to provide one.
Ah, the beautiful wonders of Victorian engineering 😍 Great music choice - Suk sounds very English here - but once the din of the machine and public starts, it's pretty pointless.
The very definition of "magnificent"! I see the other two pumps setting there, I assume that's what this station looked like, cleaned up a lot, back in the day, years after the station was new. I wonder what it must have felt like working there, both when the machines and the paint were new, before time and neglect took their poll and in the Edwardian Age, when machines were just machines and not Art?
Well, for one thing, unlike the video you see here, nobody was wearing down jackets. They would’ve been wool in the winter.
@@davidgold5961 I suspect it would have been hot as Hell in there, all year around. Even though those big tubes are the pumps, they probably were pretty tight while the seals on most steam engines of that time leaked like crazy with steam and hot water everywhere. Probably pretty noisy too. The two other pumps in the shot have been steam cleaned so they aren't caked with greasy dirt but I'll bet they used to be. But that would have been later, after the newness wore off and such engines where in many places and not so artistically housed nor cared for.
And, why is everyone wearing hard hats? The U.K. has gone mad😡
How utterly British~
Elegant engineering in a beautiful building.
Not to forget the "dark satanic mills" which consumed people like coal to produce it.
Way this music???😡
Plumbing get your plumbing here pipe the sh-t right out of your house.
Shit pumping metal
Music so annoying and unnecessary
Ah, sorry you didn't like it. I was unsure whether or not to keep the music, so I made it very quiet. The majority seem to like it though...
@@Chief-Instructor Some people just want to be annoyed. I thought it was hard to hear over the talking and it probably wouldn't have mattered if you took it out, but it wasn't annoying. In fact, it's kind of fascinating that you can hear the music and people talking over the sound of that obviously powerful engine and pump.