Photos from the trial run of the Fairy Queen between Delhi Cantt and Garhi Harsaru. By Rajeev Shrivastava
The seating arrangement in rear cabin in fairy queen express coach
The crew readies for the departure of fairy queen
The connection for pressurized air for the brakes. The compressor is in the rear coach and air is piped to the engine.
The engine has been retrofitted with a petrol driven compressor for the air brakes but this is not used. The air is piped from the compressor housed in rear coach
The Fairy Queen gets ready at Delhi Cantt.
Fairy Queen building up steam
Front view of Fairy Queen.
The rear cabin in the Fairy Queen Express coach. It has huge windows.
Technical details of Fairy Queen on a plate fixed on the engine.
Details of resurrection and POH of Fairy Queen
The coal is not in a tender but stacked in a cage in the rear of the engine's body.
WCBRRM coach for Fairy Queen. See the huge windows for the rear cabin, which seats 8 comfortably.
Seating arrangement in first coach of Fairy Queen Express Coach
The Guinness Book of World Records Certificate
Here's a clip showing the whistling of the fairy queen. Unfortunately I could not find a place on the engine's footplate and had to be content shooting through the glass of the coach. The angle does not make a great viewing, but here it is!