Historical Steam

This album contains undated, non location or railway specific historical images of steam on all gauges. Contains builder pictures, ex works, publicity material, vintage advertisements, posters and Indian locomotives in transit and on foreign soil. Also contains pictures of last runs of specific locomotives and last steam haulage on a particular route.

Date: 2003-03-01
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 47 items (60 items total)
build_mallet.jpg

Builder's photo, NWR Mallet. Baldwin, 1926. Scanned by Wp7713.

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NWR Mallet. NWR shed, after 1923. Scanned by Wp7713.

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Burma Railways, 0-6-6-0 Mallet; 1911. Published 1911. Scan provided by John Lacey.

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WIPR Mallet Class IM. Published 1913. Scan provided by John Lacey.

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Shantipur line 2-4-0T loco. Makers works?, 1930s. By Makers Official Picture Uploaded By David Churchill.

SIR_R_class_red_001.jpg

South India Rly R class Rack and adhesion loco for Nilgiris; 1897 Beyer Peacock. Works, 1897. By Scanned By Wp7713.

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Scan of a Canadian newspaper article about the award of contract for building of 120 WP class locomotives (No. 7516-635) to the Canadian Locomotive Works, Kingston in 1955-56. Truncated lines during scan at the bottom are "......force of about 400.

Jodhpur

Builder photo of the HP Class 4-6-2 locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia for Jodhpur Railway in 1948. The massive 12-wheeled tender that weighed 65 tons and carried 6000 gallons of water weighed more than the engine in working order

WP MLW m-12s

Canadian built WP class M-12 which later became 7337. From a Montreal Locomotive Works card June 1949.

WPBaldwin

A dated photograph of the Indian delegation with the first prototype WP locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia in 1947.

SIR_R_class_red.jpg

South India Rly R class Rack and adhesion loco for Nilgiris; 1897 Beyer Peacock. Works, 1897. By Scanned By Wp7713.

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YC class Pacific. Works, 1928. By Scanned By Wp7713.

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Y3 class 0-8-4 tank locomotives were used for banking services by Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR) on the Thull Ghat. No. 40 of this class was built by North British in 1913.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works picture of the prototype YG class 2-8-2 locomotive. This was the tenth locomotive in an order for 120 locomotives built by Baldwin between 1949-50.

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Vital Statistics of the prototype YG class 2-8-2 locomotive built by Baldwin in 1949. Baldwin works number 74,483 was BBCIR No. 2510 which in turn became YG 3010 under 1957 All India renumbering scheme