Waterworks Museum

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 [ [http://www.cape-town-walks.com/table_mountain_walk.htm Table Mountain 5 Lakes Walk] ] . 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 [ [http://www.capetown.gov.za/enviro/erd/directory/museums.html WATERWORKS MUSEUM, TABLE MOUNTAIN] ] . 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 Kasteelpoort [ [http://cab94.tripod.com/museums.htm Tabletalk, 4 April 2002] ] .

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