FORGOTTEN VICTORIAN PUMPING STATION (CROSSNESS LONDON) 

Thanks for doing what you do!

Thanks for the effort and work you do! It makes our ancestors look more godly and enlightened then their offspring.

Mywindow - strange comment, are you saying people today are dumb? I think you should perhaps speak for yourself. The suggestion that humanity has lost intelligence is a pretty stupid argument, the things we take for granted today would have been unimaginable to the Victorians.

great work, thank you for the tour

Mate, you are are a legend

lol yeah, the victorians were good at making industrial buildings actually look nice

Amazing looking place. It does look like that, doesn't it? With a steamboat diesel oil rig powered poo pipe organ.

Hahaha, more like a beautifull cathedral to shit, muck, disease and general period correct pollution... ;-)

Wrong, it's quite the opposite. It's a beautiful cathedral to dealing with "shit, much, disease" and pollution.

There's an engine of similar age and size up near Derby that is still kept operational for balancing a canal. Most of the everyday work is done by electric pumps but the steam engine can join in if there's a flood (or to amuse visitors, e.g. Fred Dibnah)I'd be more impressed if they got Crossness running again, even if it's not doing vital work.

+DOS Fox yeah it's very nice to see :)

That's exactly what it is.

A modern solution would be cheaper, more efficient, less noisy, less polution and would require less staff, dont undervalue modern engineers.

I work as a engineer so i don't. I just think that mondern engineering looks a bit dull. Pumping stations today simply said are just a few tanks, a few pipes and a set of pumps going vrrrrr. Steam pumps sounds like they are alive.

Steam engines (ive only ran locos, not stationary engines, but still relevant) ARE alive! Witnessing a skilled engine-man get the most out of a loco is a truly awe inspiring site.I had the pleasure for firing for old guys (now passed, RIP) who worked locos when they were in service.The skill these guys possessed was in another realm to the modern trained drivers.They always used less steam to go faster! Anybody can drive a diesel, just notch it up! Takes real skill to control cutoff and regulator positions in a steam loco, my hats are of to all the old timers out there, the numbers are ever decreasing and it will nto be long until they are all gone! I'm so thankful for the experiences i have had in the past that would never have been possible without them.I haven't been involved for a long time,but i will never forget.On the rare occasions i hear a loco working the mainline, i get shivers.

Can't even imagine the amount of noise in that enginehall back in the days. 😬

because its easy and more so cheap to do were going backwards disguised as going forwards !!

That's good, I'd rather see the used to maintain safe, efficient equipment. Back then it was new and there weren't many of them. Cam you imagine the cost to elaborately decorate thousands of water treatment plants supporting billions of more customers now? They use the money for more practical parts of the infrastructure, royalty also toured these stations and they wanted to impress them. This was during the height of the British empire and they were flush with money. Nowadays few people see water treatment plants as well.

thanks for your support folk :)

Thanks for your support :) we have lots of other explores if your interested

thanks for your support :)

That would be amazing to see :)

Trust me on this , if you ever come over here I would put you up and take you for a visit as it is truly amazing . Much better than going to the shard for instance