winding engine in a sentence

Examples

1. Tramways operated by a steam-powered winding engine pulled the trams up and down the precipitous incline to the Bakers Creek mines.
2. The upcast ventilation shaft was No 3 pit sunk to 535 yards, it had a winding engine for winding men not coal.
3. The plant located within the winding house includes a two-cylinder steam winding engine ( Walkers Limited No . 847 1903 ).
4. On Monday, 30 July 1973 the winding engine man noticed some sparks under the brake cylinder when he started to retard the winding.
5. Six boilers supplied steam for the winding engines, and a Baume washer capable of washing 160 tons of coal per hour was installed.
6. He also set about constructing a steam locomotive using the boiler and other parts from a portable steam winding engine borrowed from the colliery.
7. One was single track, with a winding engine at the top, and around 1930, an incline worked by locomotives was added.
8. The cataract was thus not used on rotative engines, not even where single-acting Cornish winding engines were still used in Cornwall.
9. A likely deviation of the tramway from the firebreak is located approximately halfway between Camp Milo and the site of the stationary winding engine.
10. A group of concrete and bed log machinery mounts are aligned with the shaft including foundations for a winding engine and an air compressor.