Hollowell steamfair and "Zeche Hannover" Bochum (Germany)

[chbeyer]

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

cheers
chris

[Pedlers mate]

. . . 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. Was the German location at a colliery? There is evidence of a large fan on some of the photographs.

[chbeyer]

Originally Posted by FosterGP6NHP

Whats the make of the brown coloured agricultural with the fabricated rear hubs?

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 ...

cheers
chris

[Pedlers mate]

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.

[chbeyer]

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 !

cheers
chris

[chbeyer]

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/

cheers
chris

[woodypup59]

Glad you enjoyed Hollowell.

Same again this year ????

[chbeyer]

yes, really liked it a lot ! Though it was a really hot day, too hot for my dogs and family to be precise but nevertheless very nice steamfair feeling and who would complain about sunshine !

Unfortunately I can not afford a family holiday in england every year I'm afraid, so it's dorset this year without family and some meetings on the continent (dordrecht for ex) looking very forward to that too.

Hope you keep the good spirit on hollowell steamfair and maybe I am able to come back 2015 !!!

cheers
chris

[calimods]

hello there, just wondered if you have anymore photo's of the miniature S4, Standard Sentinel and Burrell Wagon. Never seen any of these wagons before and don't know of any other S4 models, Thanks for the other photo's, Brian

[chbeyer]

Hi,

the owner of the sentinel is a friend of mine untill reently he had a complete build thread online on his HP but it's offline at the moment. I will ask him if it will be back online or if I can post some of his pics here ...

cheers
chris