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Marine Colliery, Cwm: Pumping Engine

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NPRN275979
Map ReferenceSO10SE
Grid ReferenceSO1888004330
Unitary (Local) AuthorityBlaenau Gwent
Old CountyMonmouthshire
CommunityCwm (Blaenau Gwent)
Type Of SitePUMP
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
An 1893 Hathorn Davey horizontal tandem-compound pumping engine is now plinthed alongside the road outside the entrance to the former colliery site. It was removed from a chamber beneath a winding engine house at the former Marine Colliery (NPRN 33571). The engine's cylinders are 36-inch and 68-inch in diameter and a stroke of 120 inch.

RCAHMW, 28 June 2011.

Sources:
Collieries of Wales, RCAHMW
A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of South East Wales, AIA, 2003