engine house

noun — 3 senses

engine house

noun

› A building housing one or more engines.

1

Firefighting, Government A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.

2

Rail transport, Railways, Transport A building for housing one or more locomotives, an engine shed.

  • Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and tender at once."1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 211:
3

A building housing a stationary engine.

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