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 maintainedBuildings that housed a steam engine on a mine. Many of these have survived in Cornwall, England, for example at Crown MinesBuildings that housed a pumping engine for an atmospheric railwayHouse-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 railwayThe hydraulic engine house, Bristol HarbourThe Tardebigge Engine House, a former canal-pumping engine house in Worcestershire, EnglandCobb's Engine House which housed a steam pump, in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England"Engine House No. 2" housing the Markfield Beam Engine, Tottenham, LondonThe Brunel Engine House in Rotherhithe, London, housing the Brunel MuseumA museum opened in 2008 at the Severn Valley Railway