The Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden
A collection of prototype model locomotives, and live steam engines. An 18th Century walled Garden with herbaceous borders and rare plants. Steam Museum This fine Victorian gothic building once stood near Inchicore Railway Works. In the Model Hall the Collection consists of Early Inventor's models, Scientific Engineering Models, and Historic Works of Mechanical Art. The Power Hall displays six huge nineteenth-century Stationary Engines running in steam on occasions. Demonstrations are included of steam powered electric lighting, and of equipment removed from a Dublin laundry driven through its original belt and line-shafting to an early prime mover. A Cornish boiler and several small engines are on show. Portraits of the Great Inventors and Engineers of the Steam Age can be seen. The Halpin Collection has samples from the first transatlantic cable laid between Valencia Island and Newfoundland.
