The Cefn Coed Colliery Winding Engine

 

The museum buildings from across the main road.

 

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Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is based on the surviving buildings of Cefn Coed Colliery, Crynant. The highlight of the displays is the  Worsley Mesnes Horizontal Double Cylinder Steam Winding Engine of 1927 that formerly wound No.2 shaft. The No1 shaft engine, a 1911 Markham, has gone but the winding gear remains, as does the boiler house with six Lancashire Boilers and the single cylinder Llewelyn & Cubitt sinking engine latterly used as the shaft maintenance capstan.

The engine suffers badly from the present obsession with guarding, deemed necessary because the engine is turned over electrically.

The two cylinders are 32"x5'0" The 16' diameter drum wound at 60 rpm on 180 psi. It wound two tons from 2,100 feet on an 80 second cycle.  The cylinders have drop inlet valves and Corliss exhaust valves worked by Gooch linkage and wrist plates. 

 The pistons have tail rod guides, just visible through the netting.  View of the winding drum from the driver's position.  One of the drop inlet valves.  Melling's controller, the brake engine and the reversing engine.The drum is in the background.

The official website with details of opening times, access etc. is at http://www.neath-porttalbot.gov.uk/tourism/heritage/cefn_coed.cfm

or

http://home.clara.net/l.a/colliery.htm

 

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