New Pump Room, Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Nr Bridgwater, Somerset.
Westonzoyland Pumping Station was the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by an Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, the museum is open every Sunday throughout the year. Also narrow gauge railway, smithy and many other unusual exhibits. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
VISITING WESTONZOYLAND PUMPING STATION MUSEUM SOMERSET Part 1
Description We visited on ! January 2016. It is only open on certain dates so check before you visit.. Before we visited I assumed the pumping station supplied water to the Bridgwater Canal. I was wrong! It pumps water from the Somerset levels into the River Parrett.
Westonzoyland Light Railway at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Somerset
Filmed at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Nr Bridgwater, TA7 0LS, the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset, built c1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by an Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, the museum is open every Sunday throughout the year. Also narrow gauge railway, smithy and many other unusual exhibits. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
VISITING WESTONZOYLAND PUMPING STATION MUSEUM SOMERSET Part 2
Description We start with a quick look around followed by more detailed inspection of the many active exhibits. Please disregard all references to the canal at the site, because the water is being pumped not into that, as I first thought, but from a network of drainage ditches on the Somerset Levels into the nearby River Parrett.
It is great that people have been able to save and restore these mechanical marvels for us to see today. They do have more similar devices in storage waiting for more money and buildings to house them.
Lynn Winch at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
This winch was manufactured by John Lynn & Co of Sunderland and was used at the dairy in Hemyock, Devon to move milk tankers across the road from the branch terminus of the Culm Valley Light Railway into their private siding. Note the chevron gears, which are the origin of the Citroen logo. Filmed on Good Friday, 6th April 2012, at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Nr Bridgwater, home of the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, open every Sunday throughout the year. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum - Facilities Extension at 19 08 2013
See progress on the facilities extension to provide improved visitor facilities and toilets at Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Nr Bridgwater, TA7 0LS, the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset, built c1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by an Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now an accredited museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of working stationary engines and pumps, the museum is open every Sunday throughout the year. Also narrow gauge railway, smithy and many other unusual exhibits. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Wood Train Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
Filmed on the 2' narrow gauge railway at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, featuring our Lister and Simplex locos and all our rolling stock in action. The museum is about 4 miles from Bridgwater, and was the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of working stationary engines and pumps including the 1861 Easton Amos land drainage machine. Open every Sunday throughout the year. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Facilities Extension at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
See the start of the facilities extension to provide improved visitor facilities and toilets at Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Nr Bridgwater, TA7 0LS, the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset, built c1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by an Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, the museum is open every Sunday throughout the year. Also narrow gauge railway, smithy and many other unusual exhibits. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
'Steam on the Levels 2014' at Westonzoyland Pumping Station
Filmed at 'Steam on the Levels' on 17th and 18th May 2014, at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Nr Bridgwater, home of the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, open every Sunday throughout the year. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Westonzoyland Pumping Station in the News
On 16th January 2014, ITV Westcountry News visited the Pumping Station to do an article on flooding of the Somerset Levels and the need for dredging.
Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Nr Bridgwater, was the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by an Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, open every Sunday throughout the year. 2' narrow gauge railway and many other interesting and unusual exhibits. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Westonzoyland Pumping Station Main Engine
This is the 1861 Easton & Amos Land Drainage Machine. It was one of the first to use a rotary pump instead of the plunger type like Crofton. There were several other Machines in the area two of which are on site waiting to be erected whilst a third is in its original engine house next to a bungalow converted out of its boiler house. Despite all being built by the same company there are all of different designs.
Ransomes Rapier Piling Winch at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum.mp4
This type of winch was used by the Somerset Rivers Board for driving interlocking steel piles for coffer-dams and other repair works on river banks. It is rail borne on a 2' gauge chassis and comprises a 10cwt hoist driven by a Lister model A petrol engine. Machine Number 184. If anyone knows any history about this particular machine or any others like it, please contact steamteam@wzlet.org. Filmed on 'New Year's Day 2012' at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Nr Bridgwater, home of the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, open every Sunday throughout the year. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Culverwell Horizontal Steam Engine at Westonzoyland Pumping Station
This steam powered horizontal engine developed about 25HP and was used at Holts Brewery, Burnham on Sea, Somerset, to drive the mash tun rakes, malt mill, various sack hoists, liquor pumps and wort. The engine was manufactured in Bridgwater and was restored at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, TA7 0LS, the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset, built c1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by an Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage, acknowledged to have the largest collection of working stationary engines and pumps in the South of England, the museum is open every Sunday throughout the year. Also narrow gauge railway, smithy and many other unusual exhibits. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.
Partial collapse of River Parrett retaining wall at West Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset #3
Bridgwater is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and a major industrial centre. Bridgwater is located on the major communication routes through South West England. According to the 2001 census, the town had a population of 33,698.
RAF Westonzoyland Airfield
A Collection Of Photos Taken Around This Very Extant WWII Airfield In Somerset.
Learning The Forge at Westonzoyland Pumping Station
Filmed at 'Steam on the Levels' on 16th May 2015, Bridget learns how to forge. Westonzoyland Pumping Station, Nr Bridgwater, was the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset, established1830. The original beam engine and scoop wheel were replaced in 1861 by the Easton Amos land drainage machine still in full working order. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, the museum is open every Sunday throughout the year between 1-5pm. Also narrow gauge railway, smithy and many other unusual exhibits. Tearoom, bookshop, and free parking. In steam monthly between April and October & some bank hols incl New Year’s Day. For full details of steaming dates/times please visit wzlet.org.
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A ride on the Westonzoyland Light Railway
A possible vision of the future with a ride behind the lister pulling an empty timber wagon, Simplex 40S and the new open wagon along the line from the wood storage yard to the museum winch house.
Would you take a ride if you were visiting the museum and the railway was passed out for passenger running?
WZLR at the Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage nr Bridgwater, Somerset wzlet.org
10 best EVPs caught at the Westonzoyland airfield investigation
these are the 10 best EVPs we caught at our investigation at the control tower. We heard alot of these with our own ears we caught alot more but these were the best to upload. This is what we can hear them say please feel free to comment if you hear different.
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R.A.D.D Paranormal
1869 Eastons Amos & Anderson Pump from Southlake Pumping Station
Freeing up and greasing the moving parts of the 1869 Eastons Amos & Anderson land drainage machine from Southlake Pumping Station, which ceased use in 1948. This is an 8hp twin inverted vertical engine with the pump impellor between, set on a horizontal axis.
Filmed at Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Nr Bridgwater, home of the first steam powered pumping station in Somerset built c1830. Now a museum of steam power and land drainage housing a fascinating collection of stationary engines and pumps, open every Sunday throughout the year. For full details and steaming dates go to wzlet.org.