| Description | 20 horse power sun & planet engine, with 23ΒΌ inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion [?]. Also drawing of railway.
Working gear - coloured original drawing (drawing CZD); sketch of parts and plan of cast iron railway.
Catalogue of Old Engines p. 44.
For the proprietors of Walker Colliery - Charles Brandling of Gosforth House (executor of the late William Ord of Fenham), William Peareth of Usworth House, Durham and Henry Utcirk Reay of Burnhall, Durham. Winding engine, for pit known as Lawson Main or Walker Hill, Walker Colliery. This was the third engine for Walker Colliery and is usually referred to as "Walker Hill". No book appears for this engine in John Southern's List of Books. Boulton & Watt also made an iron waggon railway for this colliery.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (from Thomas Barnes). |