Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - Steam Locomotive List
by Harsh Vardhan, 2006
With updates by Alan Lewendon, David Churchill, and others
This list includes all of the 'original' steam locos of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, which is to say that the newer oil-fired locomotives built by Golden Rock in 2003-2004 are not included, nor are the diesel locos that also now run on the DHR.
| Status | Class | Number | Name | Wheels | Built | Builders | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locomotives at Tindharia awaiting disposal | |||||||
| Preserved Condemned | B | 783 DHR 26 | 0-4-0ST | 1899 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Workshops Tindharia (Frames only) | |
| Preserved Condemned? | B | 790 DHR 35 | 0-4-0ST | 1914 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia ? (Recorded at Tindharia as condemned; actual location uncertain; seen at New Jalpaiguri in 2000.) | |
| Preserved Condemned | B | 793 DHR 40 | 0-4-0ST | 1917 | Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia | Workshops Tindharia (Condemned boiler; to be plinthed with condemned boiler and replacement superstructure and cab. Frames used in recent years for moving boilers around.) | |
| Locomotives Working | |||||||
| Working Passenger | B | 779 DHR 21 | Himalayan Bird | 0-4-0ST | 1892 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Workshops Tindharia |
| Working Passenger | B | 780 DHR 22 | Green Hills | 0-4-0ST | 1892 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Workshops Tindharia |
| Working Passenger | B | 782 DHR 25 | Mountaineer | 0-4-0ST | 1899 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Workshops Tindharia |
| Working Passenger | B | 786 DHR 30 | 0-4-0ST | 1904 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 787 DHR 32 | 0-4-0ST | 1913 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia. Converted to oil-burning. | |
| Working Passenger | B | 788 DHR 33 | 0-4-0ST | 1913 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 791 DHR 36 | 0-4-0ST | 1914 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 792 DHR 39 | 0-4-0ST | 1917 | Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia | Workshops Tindharia. Said to have been sent to Golden Rock in 2006 for 'rehabilitation'. | |
| Working Passenger | B | 794 DHR 41 | 0-4-0ST | 1917 | Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia | Transferred to Matheran Light Railway | |
| Working Passenger | B | 795 DHR 42 | 0-4-0ST | 1919 | Workshops Tindharia | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 802 DHR 49 | 0-4-0ST | 1927 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 804 DHR 51 | 0-4-0ST | 1928 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 805 DHR 52 | 0-4-0ST | 1928 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia | |
| Working Passenger | B | 806 DHR 53 | Queen of the Hills | 0-4-0ST | 1928 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops Tindharia |
| Working Private Railway | B | 778 DHR 19 | 0-4-0ST | 1889 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Beeches Light Railway, Oxfordshire* | |
| Locomotives Preserved | |||||||
| Preserved Museum | B | 777 DHR 18 | 0-4-0ST | 1889 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | National Rail Museum | |
| Preserved Pedestal | B | 785 DHR 28 | 0-4-0ST | 1903 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Railway Station Dehradun | |
| Preserved Pedestal | B | 797 DHR 44 | 0-4-0ST | 1925 | Workshops Tindharia | Railway Station Charbagh | |
| Preserved Pedestal | B | 799 DHR 46 | 0-4-0ST | 1925 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Railway Board, New Delhi | |
| Preserved Pedestal | B | 800 DHR 47 | 0-4-0ST | 1925 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Reasearch Designs & Standards Organization, Lucknow | |
| Preserved Pedestal | B | 801 DHR 48 | 0-4-0ST | 1927 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Workshops New Bongaigaon | |
| Preserved Pedestal | C | 808 DHR 38 | 4-6-2 tender | 1914 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Head Quarters Office NFR, Guwahati | |
| Preserved Private | B | 781 DHR 24 | 0-4-0ST | 1899 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | North Eastern Coalfields Ltd., Tipong, Assam | |
| Preserved Private | B | 784 DHR 27 | 0-4-0ST | 1903 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | North Eastern Coalfields Ltd., Tipong, Assam | |
| Preserved Private | B | 789 DHR 34 | 0-4-0ST | 1914 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | North Eastern Coalfields Ltd., Tipong, Assam | |
| Preserved Private | B | 796 DHR 43 | 0-4-0ST | 1923 | Workshops Tindharia | North Eastern Coalfields Ltd., Tipong, Assam | |
| Preserved | B | 798 DHR 45 | 0-4-0ST | 1925 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Recorded at Tindharia as condemned; now at Regional Railway Museum, Howrah. | |
| Preserved Private | C | 807 DHR 37 | 4-6-2 tender | 1914 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai | |
| Plinthed | B | 803 DHR 50 | 0-4-0ST | 1928 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | Transferred from Tindharia to Moradabad | |
| Preserved; restored in 2000. | ? | Baby Sivok | 0-4-0 T | 1911 | Orenstein & Koppel, A.G. Berlin | Transferred from Tindharia to Ghum Museum*** | |
| Locomotives Gone | |||||||
| Scrapped | ? | Tiny | 0-4-0 ST | 1874 | MW | ? | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 09 | 0-4-0WT | 1881 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Survived until 1954. See note** below. | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 10 | 0-4-0WT | 1881 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | Survived until 1944. See note** below. | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 11 | 0-4-0WT | 1882 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 12 | 0-4-0WT | 1882 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 13 | 0-4-0WT | 1882 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 14 | 0-4-0WT | 1882 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 15 | 0-4-0WT | 1883 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | A (NG) | DHR 16 | 0-4-0WT | 1883 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | B | DHR 17 | 0-4-0ST | 1889 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | B | DHR 20 | 0-4-0ST | 1889 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | B | DHR 23 | 0-4-0ST | 1896 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | B | DHR 29 | 0-4-0ST | 1904 | North British Loco Co, Glasgow, UK | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 01 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 02 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 03 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 04 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 05 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 06 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 07 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | C | DHR 08 | 0-4-0T | 1880 | Sharp Stewart & Co, Atlas Works, Manchester | ? | |
| Scrapped | D | DHR 31 | 0-4-0 +0-4-0 Garratt | 1910 | Bayer Peacock & Co, Manchester | ? | |
* DHR 19 B has travelled far. It was acquired for private use on a family estate in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA, in 1960, and then transferred to the Hesston Steam Museum, Indiana, USA, in 1982. It was damaged by fire in 1985, repaired, but then taken out of commission in 1987. In 2003 it was purchased by Adrian Shooter for the private 2' Beeches Light Railway in Oxfordshire, England, and underwent a complete restoration to working order at the Tyseley Locomotive Works in 2004.
** There is a class A chassis at Tindharia, but it is not clear which locomotive it belongs to. Only Nos. 9 and 11 survived beyond 1911. No. 9 survived until 1954, and No. 11 until 1944. The chassis has a front axle bearing marks of replacement in 1925, so it must be of either No. 9 or No. 11, probably the latter, from observations in 1979-1980 by David Churchill.
*** Baby Sivok was restored in 2000 but the extent of restoration is unclear. It is known that the loco can be placed in light steam (as was done as recently as Feb. 3, 2006) but it is unknown whether it can stand high pressure or actually run.
Also see the list of DHR locos as of January 1998 by David Churchill.