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Abbey Pumping Station Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![This Lister Auto Truck (of 2 foot gauge) is part of the museum collection at Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester. The dark object in the right background is an excavator; the ribbed plastic tower is part of the National Space Centre.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2014]](/images/47000/47833.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
![This electric crane may look quite conventional, but it runs on an 11 foot gauge track. Power is supplied from a generator through a <large economy size> extension lead, which is wound on and off a reel as the crane moves fore and aft. You couldnt make that up. As for the background, they do seem to have trouble with wasps in Leicester. [see image 47833] for a more sensible explanation.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2014]](/images/47000/47850.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
![At last, the inspiration for the styling of the Class 70 is revealed. This Simplex loco was built in 1979 by Motor Rail of Bedford, and spent its working life holding its nose at the Minworth sewage works railway, near Sutton Coldfield. There is a similar loco in the Grain Store on the Statfold Barn railway [see image 46848]. It has a longer bonnet, but appears to share the unusual feature of having only one cab door, the other side being open to the elements.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2014]](/images/48000/48001.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
![This is the opposite end of the E-shaped layout from Peters perch [see image 48001]. The locomotive is a cabless 1944 Ruston and Hornsby. Passengers were not encouraged to use the minimal platform to disembark.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2014]](/images/48000/48022.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
![The Simplex locomotive shown in image 48001 can be seen running round its train past the brick wagons and side tipping sewage sludge transporters [see image 48022] for an opposed view.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2014]](/images/48000/48127.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
![<I>Are we out of the woods yet?</I> The resident Ruston diesel [see image 48022] taking things literally on 28th June. The beam engines here are well worth viewing, especially when they are in steam.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2014]](/images/49000/49066.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
![Close of play at Abbey Pumping Station on 8th May 2017 and the Simplex narrow gauge shunter, donated to the museum by Severn & Trent Water, sits outside the maintenance shed. Note the prominent sandboxes, front and rear [See image 48001].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/05/2017]](/images/59000/59373.jpg "Leicester Abbey pumping station")
