🏛️ Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)

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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 7 October 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.

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Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station) is a cultural World Heritage site in Netherlands (Kingdom of the), in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station) was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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