Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
Westonzoyland is a small village on the Somerset Levels, a few miles from Bridgwater. It is the home of Somerset's earliest steam-powered pumping station (built 1831), once a hard-working guardian of the flatlands, now a museum displaying the largest collection of stationary steam engines and pumps in the South of England. The two foot narrow gauge railway is not original to the station but was constructed partly to help moving heavy machinery around the site and partly to demonstrate a typical installation used for maintenance by river authorities, and also in peat works. The railway has since developed and now offers rides on our bogie coach for our visitors included within the museum entry. The railway features three locomotives and a range of varying rolling stock.
- Location
- Hoopers Lane, Westonzoyland, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 0LS, GB
- Website
- http://www.wzlet.org
- Phone
- 01278 691 595