22-02-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Catch a Routemaster bus to the Crossness pumping station

The Victorian pumping station at Crossness in southeast London will be easier to visit for the next few months, as they’re laying on a Routemaster bus shuttle service.
The Victorian steam engines were installed at Crossness as part of Joseph Bazalgette’s massive London sewer network as the endpoint for the southern outflow, and was constructed with four massive steam engines to pump the sewage up from the sewer into the Thames.The four steam engines were left in place when the Victor
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