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Wouda pumping station

Wouda pumping station Wouda pumping station - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station () is a pumping station in the Netherlands, and the largest still operational steam-powered pumping station in the world. On October 7, 1920, Queen Wilhelmina opened the pumping station. It was built to pump excess water out of Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherlands. In 1967, the coal furnaces were converted to run on heavy fuel oil. Read more on Wikipedia

Source: en.wikipedia.org