Albany is a suburb of Washington in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, historically part of County Durham.

The Washington 'F' Pit museum is in the village, consisting of an engine house and winding gear built atop one of the earliest colliery shafts in the country.

For a time it was the most productive pit on the Washington coalfield, employing over 1500 men and garnering an annual total of 486,000 tons of usable coal in 1964–5.

It is an 1888 horizontal, simplex (i.e. non-compound) steam engine built by the Grange Iron Company of Durham City.

It is open to the public, but on an irregular basis;[4] as well as displays and exhibits, the engine can be viewed in motion (driven by electric motor).