Kew Bridge Steam Museum has an impressive site. The Museum is housed in a magnificent 19th. Century Pumping Station and centres around the station's five world famous Cornish Beam Engines, two of which can be seen, in steam, every weekend.

Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland is a former pumping station housing two compound rotative beam engines.Although the station no longer pumps water, the two 100 horsepower beam engines are kept in working order by volunteer members of the Ryhope Engines Trust, and "steamed" periodically for the benefit of their visitors.

Leawood Pump at Cromford in Derbyshire is powered by a Cornish type beam engine and is in steam several days a year.

Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum near Ely in Cambridgeshire has a collection of diesel engines used for fenland drainage.

Cambridge Museum of Technology is a preserved Victorian pumping station and working museum on the banks of the Cam in Cambridge. It houses a collection of steam, gas and electric powered pumping engines.

The British Engineerium at Hove is a working Victorian Pumping Station with a Museum of mechanical antiquities.