__NOTOC__ 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 depot The motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine shed ...

s (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 The Crown Mines are two mining, tin mining engine houses in the village of Botallack in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the end of a track to the cliffs there. They are set deep down in the cliff face. Their tunnels extended under the sea b ...

* Buildings that housed a pumping engine for an

atmospheric railway An atmospheric railway uses differential air pressure to provide power for propulsion of a railway vehicle. A static power source can transmit motive power to the vehicle in this way, avoiding the necessity of carrying mobile power generating eq ...

House-built engine A house-built engine is a stationary steam engine that is built into an engine house, such that it uses the masonry of the engine house as an integral part of the support of the engine. Beam engines Most house-built engines were early beam ...

s, 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. *

Fire station __NOTOC__ A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire h ...

s, which hold fire engine trucks, are often termed engine houses, perhaps especially in United States.

Examples

Notable examples, not including fire stations, include: ;in Australia *Numerous historic sites listed on the Victoria Heritage RegisterVictoria Heritage Register search on "Engine House"
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South Devon Railway engine houses South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...

, built for Brunel's atmospheric railway * The

hydraulic engine house, Bristol Harbour The Hydraulic engine house is part of the "Underfall Yard" in Bristol Harbour in Bristol, England. The octagonal brick and terracotta chimney of the engine house dates from 1888, and is grade II* listed, as is the hydraulic engine house itself. ...

* The

Tardebigge Engine House Tardebigge Engine House () is a former canal-pumping engine house at Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. It is grade II listed. It stands near lock 57 (one lock below the top lock, 58) of the Tardebigge Locks on the Worcester and Birmingham C ...

, a former canal-pumping engine house in Worcestershire, England *

Cobb's Engine House Cobb's Engine House (properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station) in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England, is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade II listed building built around 1831. It housed a stationary steam pump used to pump water ...

which housed a steam pump, in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England * "Engine House No. 2" housing the

Markfield Beam Engine Markfield Road Pumping Station, now known as Markfield Beam Engine and Museum or sometimes just as Markfield Beam Engine is a Grade II listed building containing a beam engine, originally built in 1886 to pump sewage from Tottenham towards the ...

, Tottenham, London * The Brunel Engine House in Rotherhithe, London, housing the

Brunel Museum The Brunel Museum is a small museum situated at the Brunel Engine House, Rotherhithe, London Borough of Southwark. The Engine House was designed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel as part of the infrastructure of the Thames Tunnel which opened in 1843 ...

* A

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

opened in 2008 at the

Severn Valley Railway The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England. The heritage line runs along the Severn Valley from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster, following the course of the River Severn for much of its route, and c ...

;in the United States Non-fire station ones in the U.S. include: *

Belt Railroad Engine House and Sandhouse The Belt Railroad Engine House and Sandhouse, also known as Beltline Railroad Roundhouse and Sandhouse, in San Francisco, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It served the San Francisco Belt Railroad. The p ...

, San Francisco, California *

Rockland Turntable and Engine House The Rockland Turntable and Engine House are a historic railroad maintenance facility in Rockland, Maine. The turntable and engine house were built in 1921, and are a significant reminder of the railroad's historic importance to the development o ...

, Rockland, Maine *

Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3 The Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3, also known as the Brownstone Engine House, is a building located at 601 Division Street in Ishpeming, Michigan. It was built to house engines hoisting ore from various Cleveland Mine locales, and was list ...

, Ishpeming, Michigan *

Winona and St. Peter Engine House The Winona and St. Peter Engine House is a former engine house in Winona, Minnesota, United States. It was built around 1890 by the Winona and St. Peter Railroad, a subsidiary of the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. The buildin ...

, Winona, Minnesota *

Gloucester City Water Works Engine House Gloucester City Water Works Engine House is located in Gloucester City, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1883 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1998. See also *National Reg ...

, Gloucester City, New Jersey *

Stewartstown Engine House, Stewartstown Railroad Stewartstown Engine House, Stewartstown Railroad is a historic railroad engine house located at Stewartstown, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1884, and is a simple weatherboard building with a metal covered gable roof built by the S ...

, Stewartstown, Pennsylvania

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