Hi,

it's a Fowler indeed:

Hersteller: Fowler Magdeburg
Baujahr: 1896
Gewicht: 14 t
Eigentümer: Hans-Werner Dörich, Hanau, D

It has No 3875 and was initially built as a roller had a new boiler 1927

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chris

Thankyou . . .
 

. . . for posting these photographs, Christopher. It's pretty dull, wet and cold here at the moment so it's good to put a bit of sunshine back into life. :D Was the German location at a colliery? There is evidence of a large fan on some of the photographs.

Hi Pedlers Mate et al,

thanks for the repsonse :)

The weather around here is not much different I suppose, the workshop is cold too :(

The meeting was on the area of an old coal mine/colliery (?) indeed it is called 'Zeche Hannover' located in the city of Bochum (not to be mistaken with the city of Hannover), located in the old mining area in germany called ruhrgebiet, you can find it here on a map:

http://osm.org/go/0GMNHV--?m=&node=240099833

The building in the back is a large fan for airing the mine shafts, the paddock was in there between the large engines - very nice atmosphere !

They have a gigantic steam hauling engine from 1893:

http://www.guenter-pilger.de/media_u...nnover_$11.jpg

The meeting was held on the first may weekend last year so that makes it 20 weeks or so to go ;)

It's bi-annual (?) so to speak only every second year, next time in 2015. There were roundabout 40 engines of all scales (and originals) going round the area. There was another steam event on the same weekend near to Berlin in Mildenberg (I have some pics from there from earlier years) So I think some engine owners had to decide where to go ...

Some links:

Museum homepage: http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/wim/po...glish_version/

Review off the 2013 meeting and a nice film about 2011 at the bottom of the page :

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/wim/po...Dampffestival/

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chris

More sunshine-memories on this 2008 pic, the fowler with Busso at the wood splitter

http://www.desy.de/~chbeyer/dampf/tt/DSC_0168.jpg

Pic is taken in a town called Medebach ...

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chris

I think the fabricated rear hubs are not original, the engine was used as a stationary engine at the end of it's working life and todays owner fabricated new wheels for it to get it back to it's former designation ...

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chris

Wow!
 

What a superb winding engine. The drum is a lot narrower than the usual winding engines in this country. It looks like it may have used some sort of endless rope system. Do you know if it was a sloping drift or a vertical shaft? Good to see that the engine is run from time to time. If you are in this country again there are some preserved colliery winding engines that you may be interested in seeing. Thankyou for the information about the museum, I must try to visit it some day.

Hey,

glad you like the engine, it is quite majestic to see it run indeed :)

There are some more pics here:

http://www.guenter-pilger.de/ruhrgebiet_13.htm

And a video here:

http://www.mypott.de/media/view/key/...category_id/22

The drum is just deflecting the rope, there is always one basket going up and one going down as far as I understand the system ...

The shaft is going straight down for 750 m !

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chris

did some 'research' ;)

They invented the 'koepe-foerderung' for the shaft in bochum, it's illustrated here:

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/wim/po...pe_Foerderung/

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chris

A number of Koepe winders were used in this country but I've only ever seen elelctrically-powered ones. Fascinating thread, thankyou.

The twin-valve engines with koepe-system were kind of standard around here. After koepe-system prooved to be effective, older machines were replaced or at least older winding drums were replaced.

Here is a quite complete foto listing of the still existing winding-machines in germany (sorry site is in german but mainly pictures so it might be interesting anyway)

http://www.minister-achenbach.de/dam...rmaschine.html

Another one in recklinghausen:

http://www.maschinenmuseum.de/halle/Reck.htm

Another one in Bleicherode

http://www.maschinenmuseum.de/halle/Salzberg.htm

And a very late triple cylinder steam engine with 4.000 NHP unfortunately just one pic of this engine...

http://www.maschinenmuseum.de/halle/SALZB2.HTM

cheers
chris