engine house

engine house

English

Engine house, U.S. Military R.R., Va.

Noun

engine house (plural engine houses)

1. A building housing one or more engines.
   1. (firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
   2. (rail transport) A building for housing one or more locomotives, an engine shed.
      • 1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 211:

        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."

   3. A building housing a stationary engine.

References

• “engine house”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “engine house”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.