Shore Road Pumping Station
- Shore Road Pumping Station
The Shore Road Pumping Station is a pumping station situated in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England. It contains the pumps which removes water from the railway tunnel under the River Mersey. When it was built in the 1870s[citeweb|url=http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100009/200070/1017/content_0000525.html|title=Shore Road Pumping Station|work=Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|accessdate=24 March|accessyear=2008] the pumps were driven by steam beam engines. Electric pumps subsequently replaced the beam engines; however one of the original pumps, the 'Giant Grasshopper', remains on display.][ [cite book]
author= Michael C. Duffy
title= Electric Railways 1880-1990
publisher= IET
location=
year= 2003
pages= p57
isbn= 0852968051
oclc=
doi=] The building is now part of Wirral Museum.
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