Waterworks Museum (Cape Town)

Crane outside the Waterworks Museum

The Waterworks Museum is located on the northern side of Table Mountain, between the Woodhead and Hely-Hutchinson Reservoirs, in Cape Town, South Africa. The museum was founded in 1972 by Terence Timoney, a retired waterworks engineer.[1] The museum houses a display of memorabilia from the construction of the dams on Table Mountain which include a beautifully restored narrow gauge steam engine.[2] It has an interesting display of original equipment, hand tools, instruments and photographs and includes the original well-preserved steam locomotive used to haul equipment from the old cableway at Kasteelspoort.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Table Mountain 5 Lakes Walk". Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
  2. ^ WATERWORKS MUSEUM, TABLE MOUNTAIN
  3. ^ "Tabletalk, 4 April 2002". Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2007.

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