"...This de-twiddly bit..de..dat..de-twiddly it..."

"Oh, there's another me in this Kettle"

"The coal goes in there, and this dips the water"

What Happens here?

"This demonstrates the principle of bubble makeing"

"I'm just a bit distracted!"

Oiling up the Hawthorn, Davey Tripple expansion engine

Mummy's on the phone again

"Hello Daddy"

Me again

The low pressure end of the engine with the big blue drum above the flywheel, the low pressure receaver from the intermediate cylinder

The govenor keep the engine at a constant speed by adjusting the inlet steam timing

watching the oiling continue

"It's moved a bit"

The small high pressure cylinder has a steam jacket and Corlis rotary valve. Two each for inlet and exhaulst opened by cams

Sun fills the steam hall

"The Man's cranking it"

"Oh it's started to move by it'self"

"It's ticking over now"

The Waddon engine is warmed up

Where now mum, that ticking engines still got my attention

Some vivid colours come out with the sun

Why won't this one go yet

"The tripple still has it for me, lol"

Many gauges on the tripple

No still watching, it's so exciting

The tree cylinders across the top of the tripple

Eastern and Amos Wolfe compound engine

What Daddy doing?

The Wolfe Compound has a high and low pressure cylinders together moving the beam from the same bearing

"This one's nodding up and down"

"Round it goes - It's so quiet"

It's still nodding

"This one has it for me now"

I't still Going Mummy, don't take me away

OK, ready now, smile Daddy

So Excited

This on's nice and red, but not going yet!

Checking over the Dancers End Twin engine

Check the lubrication

Like a Cathedral Organ the 90 Inch Cornish Engine waits majestically.

"I am tall enough!"

"I'm now going to lift this lever, which will open the Equalibriam valve of the 100 inch Cornish Engine"

"Not sure what this one does, but I'm going for it"

"Push Mummy"

The driving position of the 90 inch engine

The combined cylinders of the Wolfe compound leting off steam

The Dancers End twin engine came from the Hertfordshire/Bucks boarder near Tring

Looking accros the Waddon engine at the baring engine, that turns the main engine slowly into a position to start.

Looking accross the steam hall from by the Waddon pump well

The tail rod for the pumps

Some small engines were set up under the balcany

This tiny engine used to drive a cobblers shop

"I'm going to turn this one Mummy"

"I know it's hot, it says so, but it won't hurt me"