Post Independence (1947) Broad Gauge Steam.

This album contains pictures of Indian Railway broad gauge steam locomotives from the post independence (1947) era.

Date: 2008-09-02
Owner: Harsh Vardhan
Size: 255 items (334 items total)
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H Class 4-6-0 No. 24296 displays its classic British lines at Vadodara in 1975. Copyright John Adams.

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Only the buffer beam gives away the fact that this is not a monochrome shot. The WG is being serviced at Delhi Junction in the 1990's. (Mick Pope)

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WP1 class Loco No. 7723 on the turntable at the Erode steam shed round house. Photo taken by Sri S. Ramanathan, formerly GM/ERLy in 1982, a couple of weeks before Erode Steam shed closed down permanently.

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HPS2 Class No. 24468 was amongst the last of HPS class locomotives, popularly known as `Mail engines', to be built. It was built in 1950, at the same time when WP class was also in production, to cope with the shortage of locomotives and increase in traff

Steam Crane at NDB-1

An old steam crane no.#188 manufactured by M/s Braithwaite-Calcutta stabled inside the Steam Loco shed at Nandurbar.A few dogs have been permanently stationed to guard the shed and the crane. (Khalid Kagzi)

Side view of crane at NDB

Side view of the crane's Boiler and Winch truck. (Khalid Kagzi)

Hinged Buffer mounting plate

The buffers of the crane have an hinge arrangement so that they can be swung aside if needed but I can't imagine why that would be required. (Khalid Kagzi)

Control levers of Steam Crane at NDB

Levers for controlling the crane operation.Also note the the winches behind the levers which are used to wind the wire ropes. (Khalid Kagzi)

Steam driven winch turning mechanism

Winch turning mechanism driven by steam cylinders and couplings.It seems that no electricity or pneumatics were used to operate this crane with everything big and small being done by steam pressure. (Khalid Kagzi)

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Vulcan Foundry built prototype WL Class locomotive No. 7789 with a passenger train at Pathankot Jn. on 1958.05.10 Under the all India renumbering scheme of 1957, 7789 later became 15004. WL 15005 `Sher e Punjab' is preserved at NRM/Rewari shed..

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AWD 2-8-2 No. 12663 passes by the Andheri Control Tower with empty wagons on 1975.11.09

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Southern Railway WT class 2-8-4T locomotive No. 14015 is getting manually refueled at Basin Bridge in the late 1970s. By this time these locomotives, that were built for heavy suburban trains were relegated to station pilot duties. Note the missing headli

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Photograph by Nathan Rabe. Saharanpur, September 1977.