Each beam engine has a 13 tonne beam, 24 tonne flywheel and is the height of a 4-storey building. Burton-upon-Trent produced an enormous amount of sewage for a small town, mainly brewery waste ...

The steam cylinder piston goes down under the ... onto a barge for the journey up the Thames River. There are smaller beam engines such as one from Boulton and Watt that can be seen at the Kew ...