Mining machinery installed on the Creswick deep leads varied considerable in cost and size, but through necessity got more extensive and powerful as mining moved northwards and progressed through the 300 feet to beyond 400 foot. Thus the most spectacular machinery installed on the field was on the Berry lead. All the deep lead mines shared common features - steam engines for pumping, winding and puddling; steam boilers and brick chimney stacks; wooden poppet heads, and raised
tramways and cast iron puddling machines. Some companies, such as Madame Berry, also had crushing batteries to treat cement obtained from the gutter. 162 Horizontal acting engines were the norm for the Creswick field, with only two companies - Berry No. 1 and Hepburn Leasehold Estate - erecting Cornish vertical beam engines.

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