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Steam Museum

Kew Gardens London Westminster Abbey
Thames at low tide, near Kew, England Thames, Kew
Original water main, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Water Main
Two-cylinder steam pumping engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Two-cylinder Engine
Two-cylinder steam pumping engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Two-cylinder Engine
1910 Hathorn Davey triple-expansion engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England 1910 Hathorn Davey
Larger steam water pump, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Larger Water Pump
Small, belt-driven pump, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Belt-driven Pump
Gauges and controls, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Gauges
Cylinder head, reciprocating beam engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Cylinder Head
Cylinder head, reciprocating beam engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Cylinder Head
Reciprocating beam atop engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Reciprocating Beam
Looking down onto beam engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England 100 Inch, Maybe
Underside of vertical (non-beam) engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Non-beam Engine
Water pump portion of vertical engine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Vertical Water Pump
Counterweight atop pump piston, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Counterweight
Counterweight of 1838 Maudslay, perhaps - Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Counterweight
Beam atop reciprocating water pump, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, England Reciprocating Beam
Kew Bridge railway station, Brentford, England Kew Bridge station

No trip to Kew would be complete without a visit to the "Kew Bridge Steam Museum." It is housed in an old steam pumping station that pumped water from the Thames into the central London mains until the early 1940s. Most of the exhibits, then, are oriented towards water pumping and distribution.

The museum operates (I found out the hard way) on weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays, though you can wander around (sans exhibit operation) during the rest of the week.

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