Steam Museum, Straffan

53°18′42″N 6°35′56″W / 53.311715°N 6.598973°W / 53.311715; -6.598973TypeSteam museumPublic transit accessStraffan bus stop (Bus Éireann routes 120, 121, 123)Websitesteam-museum.com

The Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden is a steam museum and tourist destination in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.

Location

The Straffan Steam Museum is housed in a church building which once stood by the Inchicore railway works in Dublin. The church building was later moved and rebuilt in Straffan in Kildare.^[2]

The museum is located on the site of Lodge Park, a former "big house", which has an 18th-century walled garden.^[3]

Collection

This steam museum contains a collection of prototype model locomotives and live steam engines.^[4][5][6] Two of the locomotives on display were used in the late 19th century by the Great Northern Railway.^[5]

The museum also has a selection of steam engines used for industrial propulsion, including a large beam engine used in the old Midleton Whiskey Distillery, a pumping engine once employed in Jameson's Distillery in Dublin, and a beam engine installed in Smithwick's Brewery, Kilkenny, in 1847.^{[citation needed]}

Operations

The museum is open to visitors from Wednesdays to Sundays during the summer, from 2pm to 6pm. It has a café and a small shop.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Official site