Cobdogla Irrigation Museum
The machines that watered the Riverland
A working irrigation and steam museum home to the rare Humphrey Pump, telling the story of how the Riverland was watered.
The Riverland exists because of irrigation, and the Cobdogla Irrigation & Steam Museum tells that story better than anywhere. Its centrepiece is the Humphrey Pump — one of the last working examples in the world — a giant engine once used to lift river water onto the parched plains. The museum also houses steam engines, pumping machinery and displays on the settlement scheme that turned mallee into orchards and vineyards. On scheduled steam-up days the old machines roar back to life, a genuine highlight for families and engineering buffs alike.
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- 1906 built 0-4-0ST Bagnall steam locomotive at Cobdogla Steam and Irrigation Museum (Flickr 27855423617).jpg by Chrysler Restorers SA , CC0 via Wikimedia Commons