Waterworks Museum

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The Waterworks Museum is located on the northern side of Table Mountain, between the Woodhead and Hely Hutchinson Reservoirs, in Cape Town, South Africa. The museum was founded in 1972 by Terence Timoney, a retired waterworks engineer [1]. The museum houses a display of memorabilia from the construction of the dams on Table Mountain which include a beautifully restored narrow gauge steam engine [2]. It has an interesting display of original equipment, hand tools, instruments and photographs and includes the original well-preserved steam locomotive used to haul equipment from the old cableway at Kasteelpoort [3].

Construction equipment looking over the Table Mountain dams
Construction equipment looking over the Table Mountain dams


[edit] References

  1. ^ Table Mountain 5 Lakes Walk
  2. ^ WATERWORKS MUSEUM, TABLE MOUNTAIN
  3. ^ Tabletalk, 4 April 2002