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Azores

John Raby reports (24th June 2005) "You may both be interested in an item on BBC East Midlands Today on 20th  June. 'The biggest island of Azores has a tea plantation 100% equipped by Marshall's of Gainsborough with the last equipment provided in the 1940s.' The brief shots showed steam age equipment including a stationary engine/traction engine but I wasn't able to confirm steam boiler/engine driving the plant. See also  http://www.greentea.net/tea_process.html for background information.

Belgium

Kevin Hoggett reports that there have been two steam pumps working in the port of Zeebrugge right under his nose for many years, but not for much longer. Read his illustrated report (6th March 2009).

Czech Republic

Kevin Hoggett reports that the ZOS Ceske Velenice railway works in the Czech republic (one mile from the Austrian border at Gmund) has a blacksmith's shop with 4 working steam hammers (updated 25th August 2006). Click here for an account and some pictures.

Germany

You don't have to travel to the third world to see working stationary steam engines. See Richard Hingley's report from August/September 2002 - http://mysite.freeserve.com/dingleyspages/stationarysteam/winding/winding02.htm. 

Alan Murray-Rust adds of his September 2005 visit:

"The engine shown remains operable, albeit using compressed air rather than steam. I found it virtually by accident – I was chasing mine headgear rather than anything else, but recognised the location when I got there as one that I recalled having a reference to steam engines. By good fortune the engineman was just going on duty as I arrived at the site, and was more than happy to show me round the engine and even run it for me.

http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/443117/display/3894211
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The other engine referred to in Richard Hingley’s report, at the Ensdorf pit, is still working as described."

Holland

To quote from the website http://www.panorama360.es/woudagemaal/ :

"The steam age is over. But in Lemmer the ir.D.F.Woudagemaal as this monument is officially known, is the only steam-driven pumping engine in the world that still serves its original purpose. Built during World War One and opened in 1920, the impressive, monumental pumping-station holds its own for draining excess water. On these occasions the sleeping giant is revived for a few days to do its much-needed duty. It has a capacity of 2520 H.P. and a capacity of 4000m³ water per minute, this is approximately the volume of the machine hall!. Per day approximately 6 million m³ water can be pumped. Since 1998 the Woudagemaal has a place on UNESCO's World heritage list. Historical machines and buildings like this keep the memory of the former times alive. And the people who run the station and explain its workings to visitors, with much courtesy, make us feel a part of those times." More information (in Dutch) on the operational days is on the main website http://www.woudagemaal.nl/. 

Chris Hodrien (4th February 2010) has sent me a list of websites for the country, these are (mainly) for drainage pumping:

• http://www.gemalen.nl/deelnemers.asp

• http://www.stoomgemaalnijkerk.nl/oud/index.htm

• http://www.stoomwerktuigen.nl/steamengines/index.htm

• http://www.stoomwerktuigen.nl/stoomwerktuig/links_to_steam_web_pages.htm

• http://www.museumgemaalcremer.nl/links.htm

• http://www.rondehoep.nl/Nuttige%20links.htm

• http://www.gemaal1879.nl/links.htm

• http://www.stoommachinemuseum.nl/links.html

• http://members.chello.nl/f.gerritsen4/links.htm

FIEN national IA Federation- Dutch IA societies links page:

http://www.industrieel-erfgoed.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=12&Itemid=9 

Individual sites:

• http://www.cruquius.gemaal.nl/ + http://www.museumdecruquius.nl/ - the Cruquius unique huge concentric annular 144" Cornish-built beam engine (1 of original 3 around the polder) (now workable*! on hydraulics)

• http://www.stoommachinemuseum.nl/ Medemblik Nederlands Stoommachine Museum - the best 'multi-engine' volunteer working steam museum

• http://www.woudagemaal.nl/ - Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal - Lemmer (Still WORKABLE (occasional standby), biggest in Europe!) - see above

• http://www.stoomgemaal.nl/ ( PLUS see 'LEFT' link = links to other steam sites)

• http://www.stoomgemaalnijkerk.nl/oud/index.htm + click 'links' weblink (-in Dutch section ONLY) for more sites

• http://www.xs4all.nl/~nieko/gemaal.htm

• http://putterstoomgemaal.nl/

• http://www.de-tuut.nl/index.php?id=1

Kosovo

Not working steam, but Torsten Schneider turned up a preserved Ruston Proctor portable, which must have been lost from sight for a long time (2nd April 2007). Click here to see it.

Madeira

John Raby visited a sugar mill here in January 2007 which is part of the local rum industry, read his report (2 more pictures, 27th January 2007), which includes some extra photographs culled from the web. Fabulous stuff!

Not working by any means, but these fascinating survivors were spotted by Mike Dale (added 3rd August 2007). A nearby boiler is marked as being from Clarke Chapman of Gateshead, UK and they may be from the same company. Chris Allen believes the steam winches were once used by the whaling industry which had a base on this island until 1981 (there is a whaling museum - Museu da Baleiaat - at Caniçal). Martin Green (31st August 2007) has sent me a close up which confirms that the winches are also from Clarke Chapman. Accepted opinion is that the current disposition dates from their mounting for exhibition and bears no relation to their original use. Andrew Hancock confirms that they were still in place in May 2010 - near central Funchal in the hotel zone next to a marine research institute - and that there are actually four winches, his are the lower two pictures (8th June 2010). Steve Lord has been there and reports that the large walled structure was formerly a coal bunker, his is the picture of the Clarke Chapman boiler (15th October 2011).

Norway

One of my friends is planning a visit to Spitzbergern, which boasts the most northerly steam locomotive in the world at Ny-Alesund (78.56N). This prompted me to do a little web searching which threw up Colin Billington's trip there (see http://www.billogs.com/cb/spitzberegen.htm) which included the remains of both a stationary steam engine and a Taylor and Hubbard steam crane at Ny London (78.50N) across the water.

Spain

There is a working sugar mill in Malaga, Spain.