Skip shaft

The roofed building houses the restored and working beam engine (the oldest working beam engine still working in it's original site). The engine is a whim engine, that was used to raise and lower items up and down in this case the "Skip shaft". The engine has a 24" cylinder, quite small by Cornish beam engine standards. Some of the pumping engines were 90 or 100" cylinders.The engine was saved from the scrapman in 1935 by the Cornish Engines Preservation Society and then restored by volunteers of The Trevithick Society who became known as "The Greasy Gang". The National Trust now own the site.

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