Shore Road Pumping Station
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shore-road-pumping-station-301-17211745
title:
Shore Road Pumping Station
text:
The Shore Road Pumping Station is a pumping station in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It was designed by engineers James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox and built in the 1880s as part of the Mersey Railway. The building originally housed two steam powered beam engine pumps which removed water from the railway tunnel under the River Mersey. These had ceased working by 1959 when they were replaced by electric pumps. One of the engines, named the 'Giant Grasshopper', remains in sit
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description:
Pumping station in Birkenhead, England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_Road_Pumping_Station
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date modified:
2024-03-06T22:47:32Z
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