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5 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
The YP Class Pacific was the standard metre gauge passenger design of the post independence period with 871 built between 1949 and 1970, more than half of them by Telco in India. They had much in common with the YG Class 2-8-2s and the last examples remained in service into the late 1990s.
WP Class 4-6-2s
16 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
The WP Class Pacifics were introduced in 1947, a development of the pre-war GIPR XP Class, with bar frames and a larger boiler and firebox. A total of 755 had been built when production ceased in 1967. They could be found all over India but by the 1980s had largely been relegated to secondary passengers.
WG Class 2-8-2s
16 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
The WG Class 2-8-2 was India's standard broad gauge main line freight engine, introduced in 1950. Although many builders were involved, almost 80% of the 2450 WGs were built at Chitteranjan in India with production continuing until 1970. The last examples remained in service into the 1990s.
CC Class 4-6-2s
12 photos
updated : 2024-10-18
These 762mm gauge Pacifics were built by North British between 1906 and 1908 for the Bengal Nagpur Railway as C Class, becoming CC Class when they were superheated. They remained in service on several SER lines for many years and were still going strong on the Raipur NG system in 1986.
BS Class 2-8-2s
2 photos
updated : 2024-10-18
The BS Class was superheated version of the earlier B Class 762mm gauge 2-8-2. 29 BS were built for the Bengal Nagpur Railway by Nasmyth Wilson, NBL and Yorkshire Engine between 1915 and 1924 and a number remained in service on the South Eastern Railway into the mid-1980s.
ZE Class 2-8-2s
9 photos
updated : 2024-10-16
The ZE Class 2-8-2 was an IRS design, introduced in 1928 for 762mm gauge lines. A total of 65 were built in the UK, France, Germany and Japan, the majority post-independence. They saw use on various NG lines with many working the Satpura lines around Nagpur and Gondia in central India.
India is a vast country with a rail network to match. Nowadays electrified broad gauge lines are the norm but in the mid 1980s there was still plenty of metre and narrow gauge as well. Not only that, there were still a large number of steam locomotives on all gauges. Most of these pictures were taken on a 1986 trip.
