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Wikipedia / Engine house

An engine house is a building or other structure that holds one or more engines. It is often practical to bring engines together for common maintenance, as when train locomotives are brought together.

Types of engine houses include:

  • motive power depots (MPD), where locomotives are stored and maintained

  • Buildings that housed a steam engine on a mine, used for pumping, winding or stamping. Many of these have survived in Cornwall, England, for example at Crown Mines.

  • Buildings that housed a pumping engine for an atmospheric railway

  • House-built engines, where the engine is the house. A house-built engine is a large beam engine where the engine house itself forms the frame of the engine.

The term "engine house" is also used, widely in the United States and perhaps elsewhere, to mean:

List of engine houses

Notable examples, not including fire stations, include:

  1. in Australia

  2. Numerous historic sites listed on the Victoria Heritage Register

  3. in England

  4. The South Devon Railway engine houses, built for Brunel's atmospheric railway

  5. The hydraulic engine house, Bristol Harbour, which provided power for lock gates, cranes, and other equipment

  6. The Tardebigge Engine House, a former canal-pumping engine house in Worcestershire, England

  7. Cobb's Engine House which housed a steam pump, in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England

  8. "Engine House No. 2" housing the Markfield Beam Engine, Tottenham, London

  9. The Brunel Engine House in Rotherhithe, London, housing the Brunel Museum

  10. The Engine House, now a museum opened in 2008 at the Severn Valley Railway, which houses locomotives

  11. in the United States

  12. Belt Railroad Engine House and Sandhouse, San Francisco, California

  13. Rockland Turntable and Engine House, Rockland, Maine

  14. Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3, Ishpeming, Michigan

  15. Winona and St. Peter Engine House, Winona, Minnesota

  16. Gloucester City Water Works Engine House, Gloucester City, New Jersey

  17. Stewartstown Engine House, Stewartstown Railroad, Stewartstown, Pennsylvania

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