National Railway Museum - How a Steam Engine Works 2 Sep 2009

As part of a series of talks held at the NRM 'How a Steam Engine Works' explores the amazing and very complicated workings of a Steam Engine with the help of a full size sectioned locomotive.

The Museum's Explainer Team will take you through each step of how a steam engine works from lighting a fire, to creating steam, to using the steam to move hundreds of tons of metal, freight and passengers. The locomotive its self is a fantastically re-built sectioned engine showing in detail the main components needed for a working steam engine and how they all work in unison.

The talk will begin at 16.10 outside Ellerman Lines locomotive in the Great Hall.

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