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.

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

Fire station, which hold fire engine trucks.

List of engine houses

Notable examples, not including fire stations, include:

in Australia

Numerous historic sites listed on the Victoria Heritage Register^[1]

in England

The South Devon Railway engine houses, built for Brunel's atmospheric railway
The hydraulic engine house, Bristol Harbour, which provided power for lock gates, cranes, and other equipment
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
The Engine House, now a museum opened in 2008 at the Severn Valley Railway, which houses locomotives