The Abbey Pumping Station is a museum of science and technology in Leicester, England, on Corporation Road, next to the National Space Centre.

Limited capacity and high costs meant that a Pail closet system continued to be used for poorer neighbourhoods.

Disposal of the night soil from the pail closets, via railway wagons and canal barges, caused complaints of smell and pollution.

[4] By 1912, the 2,000-acre sewage farm and pumping capacity of up to 20 million gallons a day was insufficient to meet the needs of the growing city, with 130 miles of new sewers built since the station opened, and extensions were agreed.

Leicester City Council became a unitary authority in 1997 and the Abbey Pumping Station is one of the museums that is within their jurisdiction.

In addition, there is combination of informative educational displays (mainly about water and sewage), an old-fashioned film theatre, and collections of artifacts and pictures ranging from domestic appliances to trams.

Exhibits include several fire engines, buses (see below), an 1894 Aveling and Porter steam roller, several diesel rollers, a Bedford fish and chips van, an ex Leicester Corporation Tramways tower wagon and an Austin K2 brewery dray lorry with ales.

The Ghost of an Engineer who died after falling from a great height whilst working at the Pumping Station in 1890 is said to Haunt the Building.