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Difficult to miss thanks to its stylish Italianate standpipe tower,
Kew Bridge Steam Museum occupies a former pumping station, on the
corner of Kew Bridge Road and Green Dragon Lane, 100m west of the bridge
itself. At the heart of the museum is the Steam Hall, which contains a
triple expansion steam engine and four gigantic nineteenth-century
Cornish beam engines, while two adjoining rooms house the pumping
station's original beam engines, one of which is the largest in the
world.
The steam engines may be things of great beauty, but they are primarily
of interest to enthusiasts. Not so the museum's new state-of-the-art
"Water for Life" gallery in the basement, devoted to the history of the
capital's water supply. The best time to visit is at weekends, when each
of the museum's industrial dinosaurs is put through its paces, and the
small narrow-gauge steam railway runs back and forth round the yard.
Daily 11am-5pm;
Mon-Fri £3; Sat & Sun £4; www.kbsm.org.uk. Kew Bridge train station,
from Waterloo; or
bus
#237 or #267 from Gunnersbury tube station.
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