Tees Cottage Pumping Station

30/05/2026

We’re in the echo today!! 📰 🗞️
This amazing drone shot was taken by Northern Perspectives!
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29/05/2026

June is almost upon us which means less than a month till our June open weekend!!! Join us on Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 June for our steaming! We’ve got a classic bike rally on Sunday 21 and our stunning pumping engines will be running on both days of course! The miniature railway will be running rides, the cafe will be serving delicious hot and cold food & drink on both days too and our other attractions on site will be open and working too!

25/05/2026

We send all our best wishes to our friends down at Owston Ferry and hope you can reopen soon!!

All the best, team Tees Cottage ❤️

We have some very sad news.

We have been forced to close the Pumping Station until further notice. This is beyond our control but necessary for what we hope is the short term.

As soon as we have any updates we will let you know.

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused, and hope to be open as soon as possible.

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18/05/2026

🎩⚙️ What a marvellous weekend at our annual Steampunk Event! ⚙️🎩

It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and regular steampunk supporters joining us once again.

A huge thank you goes to our splendid Tearoom team ☕🥪 for keeping everyone well fed throughout the weekend, and to the Miniature Trains 🚂 for ferrying visitors around the site in style.

We’re also incredibly grateful to Steven Screen 🎯 for the entertainment, the Auckland Shanty Singers 🎶 for their rousing performances, and the wonderfully toe-tapping Locos’ in Motion Morris dancers 👯.

A special thank you as well to all of the Traders 🎪 who travelled from far and wide to support the event, and finally to our dedicated Volunteers 👷‍♀️👨‍🏭 who work tirelessly behind the scenes to help keep Tees Cottage Pumping Station running so smoothly.

A further thank you to all the photographers 📸who supplied images from across the weekend, and especially to Alistair How for the following photographs.

✨Thank you to everyone who came along and helped make the weekend such a success — we hope to see you all again next year✨

18/05/2026

So one of our volunteers was exploring the new Darlington station before going to York and spotted this!! Wow!!! 🤩

17/05/2026

Well folks that’s it!!
Our annual May steaming & steampunk event is over! Thank you to everyone who came and supported us and also to our community of hardworking volunteers who got Tees Cottage ready and opened for all the visitors!! If you missed this weekend’s fun fear not! We’re back open in June for another steaming on Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 June!

17/05/2026

A Victorian waterworks museum in Darlington is set to host a weekend of steam, invention and fantasy as it throws open its doors for a steampunk…

17/05/2026

Gooood morning Darlington… again!
Day 2 of our annual May steaming weekend and steampunk event! Join us from 11:00-17:00 for an engineering fun packed day out!

16/05/2026

Steam engine top hat… we are OBSESSED!!! 🤩 😍
You never know what will appear at our steampunk event!!