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De Bakkersmolen Steam Museum, Belgium

Thomas Kautzor reports:

De Bakkersmolen (http://www.bakkersmolen.be) is a flour mill, bakery and restaurant in Essen-Wildert, just south of the border from the city of Rosendaal in the Netherlands. The place also houses  a small railway which runs around the mill, steam museum and two-track loco shed on a small loop.

The Marshall portable is located next to the bakery and used to power something inside. The others are in the steam shed attached to the windmill. My guru Derek Rayner is of the opinion that this cannot actually be "7772" which would place it in the 1880s.


This is a Merryweather Valiant Pump, as the colour suggests it was used for fire fighting (see http://www.steel-wheels.net/sferegister.html)

A small pump:

A winch type engine

A small horizontal engine

A larger horizontal engine

This is the boiler which powers them all



Rob Dickinson

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