A large water wheel powered the line shafting ( some of which can be seen upstairs in Wilf s Caf?) and under the balcony can be seen where the water was drawn off above the weir and channelled along the race, through an archway into the building to power the wheel.
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The stationary engines which had powered the line shafting in workshops and factories had been ousted by the arrival of smaller and more efficient electric motors, and electric pumps had almost completely replaced large beam engines at water works . ( Ironically, the coal mining industry had been one of the earliest to spot the potential advantages of electricity as a source of power-using it for everything from lighting to pumping to powering locomotives, thereby nurturing the technology that would one day play a significant part in its downfall . ) British Rail's huge fleet of steam locomotives had gone by the end of the 1960s, and by the late 70s even the NCB's locomotive fleet consisted almost entirely of diesels.
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