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. 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.

Notable examples include:

In England, there are several notable engine houses:

• The South Devon Railway engine houses, built for Brunel's atmospheric railway
• The hydraulic engine house, Bristol Harbour
• The Tardebigge Engine House, a former canal-pumping engine house in Worcestershire, England
• Cobb's Engine House which housed a steam pump, in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England
• "Engine House No. 2" housing the Markfield Beam Engine, Tottenham, London
• The Brunel Engine House in Rotherhithe, London, housing the Brunel Museum
• A museum opened in 2008 at the Severn Valley Railway

In America, Engine House, Engine House No. 1, and similar, may refer to:

(ordered by number)

• Engine House (Auburn, Maine), listed on the NRHP in Maine

• Engine House No. 1 (Sandusky, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio
• Engine House No. 10 (Washington, D.C.), listed on the NRHP in Washington, D.C.
• Engine House No. 11 (Detroit, Michigan), listed on the NRHP in Michigan
• Engine House No. 11 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
• Engine House No. 13 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
• Engine House No. 16 (Columbus, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio
• Engine House No. 18 (Los Angeles, California), listed on the NRHP in California
• Engine House No. 18 (Detroit, Michigan), listed on the NRHP in Michigan
• Engine House No. 28 (Buffalo, New York), listed on the NRHP in New York
• Engine House No. 3 (Fort Wayne, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana
• Engine House No. 3 (Kalamazoo, Michigan), listed on the NRHP in Michigan
• Engine House No. 3 (Sandusky, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio
• Engine House No. 3, Truck No. 2 (Hoboken, New Jersey), listed on the NRHP in New Jersey
• Engine House No. 31 (San Francisco, California), listed on the NRHP in California
• Engine House No. 34 (Boston, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
• Engine House No. 4 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
• Engine House No. 6 (Wichita, Kansas), listed on the NRHP in Kansas
• Engine House No. 6 (Lawrence, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
• Engine House No. 6 (Baltimore, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland
• Engine House No. 8 (Baltimore, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland
• Engine House No. 8 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
• Engine House No. 9 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington

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