Crossness’s Victorian pumping station resumes steaming this month

The Victorian steam powered pumping station at Crossness in south London will resume steam operations later this month for the first time in several years.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 Victorian pumps were repl