LOCOMOTIVES SENT TO AGENTS
L Alexander & Co, shipped to Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
2 0-4-0ST KS 1105 1909
C K Andrew, London for India
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0D Maff 4490 1929
Bassler Waechter, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-6-0T OK 9966 1922
0-6-0T OK 9967 1922
0-6-0T OK 9968 1922
0-4-0T OK 10572 1923
0-4-0T OK 10573 1923
0-6-0T OK 10574 1923
0-6-0T OK 10575 1923
0-6-0T OK 10576 1923
0-4-0T OK 10581 1923
0-4-0T OK 10583 1923
0-4-0T OK 10584 1923
0-4-0T OK 10585 1923
0-4-0T OK 10586 1923
0-6-0T OK 11105 1925
0-4-0T OK 11111 1925
0-6-0T OK 11149 1925
0-4-0T OK 11153 1925
0-4-0T OK 11154 1925
0-4-0T OK 11197 1926
Begg Roberts for India
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0WT AB 1757 1923
Begg Sutherland
Gauge: 600mm
4-6-0T BLW 44791 1917 (a)
4-6-0T BLW 45144 1917 (b)
(a) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 886. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Begg Sutherland date unknown
(b) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 1012 later ren 562. To Indian Military Reserve 1919, later to NWR no 41. Sold to Begg
Sutherland by 1930.
Bell Brothers for Killick & Nixon Co, Bombay
Gauge: BG
0-4-0ST KS 4175 1922
Berg & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 9175 1922
Beruck & Comens, Calcutta
30 Strand Road, Calcutta - Light Railway Materials
Locomotives (20, 30, 40, 50 or 55 hp - 24" or 2'6" gauge) ex stock - Tipping wagons - Light Rails - platform trucks,
sugar cane cars.
Estimates for complete industrial tramway installation submitted on application. i
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 20390 1924
0-4-0T OK 20391 1924
0-6-0T OK 20392 1924
0-6-0T OK 20393 1924
0-4-0T OK 20393 1924
0-4-0T OK 20663 1926
0-6-0T OK 20664 1926
0-4-0T OK 20665 1926
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0T OK 20755 1926
0-4-0T OK 20756 1926
0-4-0T OK 20757 1926
0-4-0T OK 20989 1928
0-4-0T OK 21682 1928
J Birch, 153 Moorgate, London, EC2 for Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
4wPM FH 3058 1945
4wPM FH 3059 1945
John Birch, Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM FH 1950
Gauge: 2'6"
0-6-0DM FH 1989 1936
Bird & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: MG
4wPM MR 2008 1920
This locomotive may have been delivered to a jute mill in the Calcutta area
Blair Campbell & MacLean
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0ST WB 2144 1920
W H Brady
Gauge: 2'0"
4wPM FH 1780 1932
4wDM FH 2340 1940
4wDM FH 2341 1940
William Buchanan, Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
2w-2PMR Wkm 6662 1953
2w-2PMR Wkm 6663 1953
Bull Brothers, Bombay
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-2ST KS 4061 1922
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-2ST KS 4051 1922 (a)
0-4-2ST KS 4061 1922
0-6-0T KS 4182 1922 (b)
WREN 0-4-0ST KS 4271 1922 (b)
(a) spares sent to J M Wetherspoon & Co for Nadir Salt Works
(b) for stock
Bullen, Calcutta
Gauge: BG
0-4-0F OK 11749 1928
Martin Burn
Burn & Co built from 1867 a pottery works at Raniganj, a lime works at Andal and a brick works at Durgapur.ii
We learn with interest that Ms Burn & Co have recently placed on the market a new motor trolley of their own design &
manufacture which is the result of several years study of the best type of trolley for the requirements of the Indian
market...........The Burns trolley is fitted with a 4 hp air cooled engine...it is capable of carrying 6 passengers and
reaching 30 mph. iii
Ms Burn & Co Ltd, Calcutta - This local firm of engineers have, it is believed, supplied the GIPR with the following light
railway equipment for the Itsari water supply project --14 miles of single rails, 14lb Caillets system type C (322 rails,
16' 6" long per mile) supported on six large size sole plates and fish plates; 20 mineral bogie trucks with movable flapsides,
10 side tipping cars for ballast; and 10 box vans with movable flap sides for conveyance of bulky goods. iv
Gauge: 60cm
4wDM RH 287678 1950
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 291055 1950
4wDMF RH 297049 1950
4wDM RH 297073 1951
4wDM RH 297074 1951
4wDM RH 304450 1950
4wDM RH 304451 1950
4wDM RH 323553 1951
4wDM RH 323554 1952
4wDM RH 323566 1951
4wDM RH 323567 1951
4wDM RH 323574 1951
4wDM RH 339212 1952
4wDM RH 339213 1952
0-4-0T Jung 11689 1952 (a)
4wDM RH 354026 1953
4wDM RH 354343 1954
4wDM RH 373330 1954
4wDM RH 373370 1954
4wDM RH 373371 1954
4wDM RH 386616 1955
4wDM RH 387876 1955
4wDM RH 387880 1955
4wDM RH 392124 1955
4wDM RH 393311 1955
4wDM RH 393312 1955
4wDM RH 393316 1955
4wDM RH 393318 1955
4wDM RH 393428 1955
4wDM RH 393430 1955
4wDM RH 394019 1956
4wDM RH 398084 1956
4wDM RH 398086 1956
4wDM RH 402824 1956
4wDM RH 408285 1957
4wDM RH 408286 1957
4wDM RH 408287 1957
4wDM RH 416215 1957
4wDM RH 416216 1957
4wDM RH 416217 1957
4wDM RH 416220 1957
4wDM RH 416221 1957
4wDM RH 418773 1957
4wDM RH 418774 1957
4wDM RH 418775 1957
4wDMF RH 418800 1957
4wDM RH 427806 1958
4wDM RH 427807 1958
4wDM RH 427808 1958
4wDM RH 427809 1958
4wDM RH 427810 1958
4wDM RH 427811 1958
4wDM RH 427812 1958
4wDM RH 427813 1958
4wDM RH 433502 1959
4wDM RH 447815 1963
4wDM RH 462364 1960
4wDM RH 462366 1960
(a) supplied to Martin Burn, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'6"
4wDM RH 296053 1950
Gauge: MG
4wDM RH 323573 1951
4wDM RH 379083 1954
4wDM RH 408291 1957
Gauge: BG
2-6-0T NW 995 1913 (a)
2-6-0T NW 996 1913 (a)
2-6-0T NW 997 1913 (a)
2-6-0T NW 998 1913 (a)
2-6-0T NW 999 1913 (a)
2-6-0T NW 1000 1913 (a)
4wDM RH 386876 1955
(a) ex BPT, Nos 1 - 6, acquired by Burn & Co, Calcutta between 1926 & 28
Crown Agents, Colombo
Gauge:
4wDM RH 247288 1947
Decauville
In the IE of 29/1/1910, a note that "....Decauville have already received orders for 100 coal mining wagons and several miles
of their well known Decauville track and light locomotives. They opened their office at 8-10 Canning Street, Calcutta in
September 1910. By October they had orders for "....1,000 steel rails with fittings for a mine in Central India, 200 pairs
of wheels and axles for a mine in Jheria, two 8-ton wagons for a 2'0" gauge light railway, a 20 hp locomotive, rails and wagons
for a local firm, a boiler and steam fittings for a 30 hp locomotive of which the frames were purchased some time ago. They
are supplying a complete light railway installation for the forest section of the Allahabad exhibition.
By early December 1910, additional orders had been received for "....3 miles of monorail track for a tea garden and one 30 hp
locomotive and 30 tipping wagons for Bombay. By the report in the Christmas Eve 1910 edition of IE, the order book had swollen
to "....one 30 hp locomotive, seventy double sided tipping wagons, 20lb track with points for the PWD Punjab. Eighteen wagons
for Benares Water Works, six miles of 14lb track for a tea gardens and a locomotive tender, several miles of 24lb track and
50 special tipping wagons for a mine.
During December 1910, they disposed of "....290 tipping wagons of which 234 were despatched from their Calcutta and Bombay
stocks. This includes 28 conservancy wagons for Howrah Municipality. In addition one 30 hp and three 20 hp light locomotives
and one loco tender, over 50 sets of points and crossings, 75 box wagons for stone transport, over 10 miles of railway line
and steel sleepers, wheels, axles, turntable and fittings".
IE for 11/2/1911 report the news that Decauville had been awarded a Gold medal for the Light Railway exhibit at the recent
Allahabad exhibition. During February 1911, over 100 orders were received including one 20 hp and two 30 hp light locos, a
number of tipping wagons, several open goods wagons all of 2'6" gauge, nearly 20 miles of Decauville track, over 300 pairs of
wheels and axles, a hand crane, etc. v
Bengal
Gauge: 600mm
0-4-0T Borsig 7066 1909
0-4-0T Borsig 7466 1910
0-4-0T Borsig 7544 1910
0-4-0T Borsig 7545 1910
0-4-0T Borsig 7749 1911
0-4-0T Borsig 7761 1911
Gauge: 900mm
0-4-0T Borsig 7421 1911
Bombay
Gauge: 762mm
0-4-0T Borsig 7902 1911
Ferrostaal for India
Gauge: 500 mm
0-4-0T Hens 19691 1923
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0T Hens 19684 1923
0-4-0T Hens 19685 1923
Finlay Fleming, Rangoon
Gauge: 2'6"
0-6-0WT JF 18619 1929
Finlay Muir, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
COLLIER 0-4-0T WB 1455 1895
John Fowler & Co, Bombay Office, customer unknown
Gauge: 2'0"
4wP JF 18888 1930
4wP JF 19232 1930
Foundation Co
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T HC 1612 1928
0-4-0T HC 1613 1928
0-4-0T HC 1614 1928
0-4-0T HC 1615 1928 (1)
0-4-0T HC 1616 1928
0-4-0T HC 1617 1928
0-4-0WT HC 1618 1928
0-4-0WT HC 1619 1928
0-4-0WT HC 1620 1928
0-4-0WT HC 1621 1928
(1) Later to Raneegunj Cane & Sugar, Plassey, Bengal. Date unknown
Gillanders Arbuthnot, Calcutta
Sole agents for White Brothers Portland Cement - The oldest brand in India vi
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 5130 1911
James Greaves
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 346019 1953 (a)
4wDM RH 370561 1955
4wDM RH 370565 1954
4wDM RH 386857 1955
4wDM RH 386859 1955
4wDM RH 386866 1955
4wDM RH 386867 1955
4wDM RH 386868 1955
4wDM RH 386870 1955
4wDM RH 386875 1955
4wDM RH 386877 1955
4wDM RH 386881 1955
4wDM RH 386882 1955
4wDM RH 386883 1955
4wDM RH 386884 1955
4wDM RH 386885 1955
4wDM RH 387877 1955
4wDM RH 387881 1955
4wDM RH 387882 1955
4wDM RH 387883 1955
4wDM RH 394020 1955
4wDM RH 422577 1960
4wDM RH 462051 1960
(a) to Bombay
Gauge: MG
4wDM RH 382822 1955
4wDM RH 392141 1955
Greaves Cotton & Co
Gauge:
4wDM RH 259182 1948
4wDM RH 264224 1951
4wDM RH 383262 1954
4wDM RH 402813 1957
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 183743 1937
4wDN RH 187047 1937 (a)
4wDM RH 191686 1938
4wDM RH 198250 1939 (a)
4wDM RH 198252 1939 (a)
4wDM RH 213822
4wDM RH 252227 1947
4wDM RH 252228 1947
4wDM RH 252229 1947
4wDM RH 264210 1949
4wDM RH 264211 1949
4wDM RH 279572 1949
4wDM RH 279573 1949
4wDM RH 283334 1950
4wDM RH 283335 1950
4wDM RH 283336 1950
4wDM RH 283337 1950
4wDM RH 283357 1950
4wDM RH 283359 1950
4wDM RH 283360 1950
4wDM RH 283515 1949
4wDM RH 283516 1949
4wDM RH 283517 1949
4wDM RH 283518 1949
4wDM RH 283519 1949
4wDM RH 283520 1949
4wDM RH 283529 1950
4wDM RH 287666 1950
4wDM RH 287667 1950
4wDM RH 297047 1950
4wDM RH 297048 1950
4wDM RH 297069 1950
4wDM RH 297070 1950
4wDM RH 297071 1950
4wDM RH 297072 1950
4wDM RH 297075 1950
4wDM RH 310021 1950
4wDM RH 310022 1950
4wDM RH 310023 1950
4wDM RH 310024 1951
4wDM RH 310025 1951
4wDM RH 310026 1951
4wDM RH 310027 1951
4wDM RH 310028 1951
4wDM RH 310029 1951
4wDM RH 310030 1951
4wDM RH 323545 1951
4wDM RH 323546 1951
4wDM RH 326042 1952
4wDM RH 327906 1951
4wDM RH 327946 1952
4wDM RH 327949 1952
4wDM RH 327950 1952
4wDM RH 327952 1952
4wDM RH 327953 1952
4wDM RH 327955 1952
4wDM RH 327957 1952
4wDM RH 327958 1952
4wDM RH 327960 1952
4wDM RH 327961 1952
4wDM RH 339082 1952
4wDM RH 339183 1952
4wDM RH 339184 1952
4wDM RH 339215 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339218 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339221 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339224 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339226 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339228 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339232 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 339234 1952 (b)
4wDM RH 349051 1953 (b)
4wDM RH 349054 1953 (b)
4wDM RH 373361 1953 (b)
4wDM RH 379062 1954
4wDM RH 379074 1954
(a) to Bombay
(b) also shown as being delivered to Martin Burn
Gauge: 2'6"
4wDM RH 266555 1949
4wDM RH 283872 1949
4wDM RH 320574 1951
4wDM RH 435385 1959
Gauge: MG
4wDM RH 379080 1954
Greaves Cotton & Co, Pakistan
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 452282 1960
4wDM RH 452283 1960
4wDM RH 452284 1960
4wDM RH 452285 1960
4wDM RH 452286 1960
4wDM RH 452287 1960
Gauge: BG
4wDM RH 265614 1948 (a)
(a) This loco was seen at Modi Sugar. vii
Haines & Sons for India
Gauge:2'0"
0-4-0T OK 12893 1936
Heatly and Gresham, Calutta and Bombay
Sole agents for VF and DC in India (6 Waterloo Street, Calcutta & 75 Hornby Road, Bombay) viii
Gauge: 2'6"
2w-2PMR Wkm 2647 1939
Henderson & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0F OK 2859 1908
Harrison (London) Ltd, Pakistan
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 283526 1950
4wDM RH 283528 1950
Robert Hudson
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0ST TG 484 1908 (a)
0-4-0WT HC 1054 1914 (b)
0-4-0WT HC 1055 1914 (c)
No 1 0-4-0T AB 1320 1914
0-4-0WT HC 1125 1915 (b)
0-6-0WT HC 1390 1915 (d)
4-6-0T BLW 44641 1916 (e)
4-6-0T BLW 44750 1917 (f)
4-6-0T BLW 44894 1917 (g)
4-6-0T BLW 44948 1917 (h)
4-6-0T BLW 44974 1917 (i)
4-6-0T BLW 44998 1917 (j)
4-6-0T BLW 45190 1917 (k)
0-6-0WT HC 1388 1920
4wDM HE 4174 1949 (l)
4wDM HE 4188 1949
4wDM HE 4189 1949
4wDM HE 4286 1951 (m)
4wDM HE 4287 1951 (m)
4wDM HE 4355 1953
4wDM HE 4356 1954
4wDM HE 4559 1954
4wDM HE 4561 1954
4wDM HE 4840 1954
(a) for Rangoon
(b) for Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
(c) for Darjeeling
(d) for Calcutta
(e) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 763. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Hudson's date unknown
(f) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 845. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Hudson's date unknown
(g) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 893. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Hudson's date unknown
(h) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 911. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Hudson's date unknown
(i) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 937. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Hudson's date unknown
(j) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 961. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To Hudson's date unknown
(k) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 1058 later ren 608. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To NWR, no 45. To Hudson's c.1930
(l) for Duncan MacNeil
(m) to New Delhi
Gauge: 2'6"
4-6-0T HE 1267 1917 (a)
4-6-0T HE 1314 1919 (b)
4-6-0T HE 1315 1919 (c)
4-6-0T HE 1348 1919 (d)
4-6-0T HE 1349 1919 (e)
4-6-0T HE 1358 1919 (f)
4-6-0T HE 1363 1919 (g)
4-6-0T HE 1371 1919 (h)
4-6-0T HE 1372 1919 (i)
4-6-0T HE 1375 1919 (j)
6wTG KS 4462 1930
(a) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 356.
(b) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 2343. Sold by tender 1919.
(c) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 2344. Sold by tender 1919.
(d) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3233.
(e) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3234.
(f) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3243.
(g) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3248.
(h) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3256. Sent to Bombay
(i) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3257.
(j) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 3259.
(a) was Used in France. After the war it was stored at Purfleet Wharf.
(b) and (c) were delivered for use in Italy and the Middle East but the end of the war meant
that the locomotive was stored at Purfleet Wharf.
(d) to (j) were all delivered after end of WW1 and stored at Purfleet Wharf. All were advertised fo sale in the 15th August
1919 edition of Surplus magazine.
Date of locos to India is unknown.
Gauge: MG
No 1 0-4-0ST HC 1441 1921
Gauge: BG
2w-2PMR Wkm 7118 1955 (a)
Indian Government
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 5675 1912
Gauge: BG
2-4-0WT EBW 569 1856 (a)
(a) ex BBCIR A class, No 2. Acquired 1862
India Office
Gauge: 600mm
4-6-0T BLW 44381 1916 (a)
4-6-0T BLW 45007 1917 (b)
4-6-0T BLW 45200 1917 (c)
(c) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 516. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To India Office date unknown
(d) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 970. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To India Office date unknown
(e) Supplied to WDLR, WD no 1068, later ren 618. To Indian Army Military Reserve 1919. To India Office date unknown
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0DM AE 1700 1915 (a)
(a) 25 hp MLD oil motor locomotive
William Jacks
ADVERT - William Jacks,& Co, 5 Murzban Road, Bombay, 1 Lall Bazaar, Calcutta and 233 Bunder Road, Karachi ix
Burma
Gauge: MG
RDT1 0-6-0T RSH 7476 1948
Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 235632 1945
4wDM RH 235634 1945
4wDM RH 221599 1947
4wDM RH 256195 1948
Gauge: MG
6wD Brookv 2420 1939
4wD Brookv 2554 1940
0-4-0DM Brookv 2536 1940
Karachi (PAKISTAN)
Gauge: 2'0"
4wVBGT S 5157 1923 (1)
4wVBGT S 5164 1924 (1)
4wVBGT S 5198 1924 (1)
4wVBGT S 6464 1926 (1)
4wVBGT S 6526 1926 (1)
(1) To Pathankot Barji & Stone Supplying Co, 1932.
Gauge: 2'6"
4wVBGT S 7728 1929
Gauge: MG
S 5155 1923
S 5158 1923
4wVBGT S 6713 1926
Gauge: BG
4wVBGT S 6061 1925
4wVBGT S 6106 1925
4wVBGT S 6273 1926
4wVBGT S 6425 1926
4wVBGT S 6635 1926
4wVBGT S 6636 1927
4wVBGT S 6802 1927
4wDM OK 25770 1957
4wDM OK 25782 1957
Janowitzer, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T Hens 6545 1912
Jessop & Co
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0ST AE 1438 1904
0-4-0T AE 1439 1904
0-4-0T AE 1440 1904
0-4-0T AE 1441 1905
0-4-0T AE 1442 1905
0-4-0T AE 1501 1906
0-4-0T AE 1503 1906
0-4-0T AE 1504 1906
0-4-0T AE 1525 1906
0-4-0T AE 1526 1909
0-6-2T AE 1527 1909
0-4-0T AE 1570 1909
0-4-0T AE 1664 1913
Gauge: MG
0-4-0F KS 4300 1923 (a)
(a) to Calcutta
W Jones, London for India
Gauge: 2'6"
0-6-0T Maff 4323 1928
Jones Burton
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T Bg 2023 1922
0-4-0T Bg 2024 1922
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0T Bg 2018 1922
0-4-0T Bg 2019 1922
Kennedy & Donkin Ltd, Calcutta
Gauge: BG
MR 2166 1922
Kilburn & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
CALCUTTA 0-6-0T OK 1618 1905
Kilburn Brown & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-6-0T KS 760 1901
F Klein, Bombay
Gauge: 2'6"
Han 10459 1926
Krupp-Dolberg
Gauge:
4wD CS 1984 1958
Lawler Ayres for Calcutta
Gauge: 2'6"
4wPM MR 3824 1926
Levaten, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T D&B 5 1922
Lever Brothers, Pakistan
Gauge: BG
4wDM FH 3469 1950
Leighton & Co, Madras
Gauge: MG
2-4-0T D 1872 (a)
2-4-0T D 1872 (b)
(a) ex MSMR A class, No 57. Delivered to RMR. To MSMR by 1883 for construction work. RMR number unknown. Acquired 1890
(b) ex MSMR A class, No 59. Delivered to RMR. To MSMR by 1883 for construction work. RMR number unknown. Acquired 1890
MacLellan & Co for India
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 10286 1922
0-4-0T OK 10287 1922
0-4-0T OK 12340 1922
MacNeil, Calcutta
Gauge: MG
4wPM MR 2008 1920
Duncan MacNeil, London for Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0ST AB 166 1875
Marshall & Co., Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
4wPM MR 1952 1920 (a)
(a) Originally used on trial at W Dennis & Sons, Nocton. Returned to MR by 26/3/1920 and then sent to India
J N Marshall & Co, Bombay
Gauge: 60cm
4wPM FH 2827 1944 (a)
(a) Originally built for M.O.S., resold 10/1946
Marshall Cottrell, Burma
Gauge: 2'6"
0-6-2T HE 1018 1910
T A Martin & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
RANGE 0-4-0T KS 704 1901 (1)
BEGUM 0-4-0T KS 705 1901 (1)
LUKEE 0-4-0T KS 742 1901 (1,2)
RAJAH 0-4-0T KS 743 1901 (1,3)
0-4-0T HE 1076 1911
0-6-0T AB 1295 1912
0-4-0WT HC 990 1912
0-6-0T AB 1328 1913
0-4-0WT HC 1163 1915
(1) returned to KS in 1905
(2) later to Mount Zeehan Mines, Tasmania
(3) later to Northern Territories Mining & Smelting, Australia
Gauge: BG
0-4-0ST AB 2036 1937
T A Martin
Gauge:
4-6-0T HE 1348 (a,b)
4-6-0T HE 1349 (a,b)
(a) ex R.O.D. locomotive
(b) Supplied via Robert Hudson
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T HE 1076 1911 (a)
0-4-0T HE 1077 1911 (a)
(a) Supplied via Robert Hudson
Martin & Co
Gauge:
4wDM RH 223709 1947
4wDM RH 223711 1947
4wDM RH 223717 1947
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 252236 1947
4wDM RH 252237 1947
4wDM RH 252238 1947
4wDM RH 252242 1947
4wDM RH 252243 1947
4wDM RH 252244 1947
4wDM RH 252248 1947
4wDM RH 252249 1947
4wDM RH 252250 1947
4wDM RH 252255 1947
4wDM RH 252256 1947
4wDM RH 260736 1948
4wDM RH 260737 1949
Gauge: 2'6"
4wDM RH 279630 1950
Gauge: MG
0-4-4T D 1874 (a)
(a) ex BBCIR B class, No 92. Delivered to ISR, one of Nos 86-105 (which were D 736-55/1874). Acquired 1917
Martin & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 172331 1935
4wDM RH 175400 1935
4wDM RH 177601 1936
4wDM RH 179874 1936
4wDM RH 183061 1937
4wDM RH 192862 1938
4wDM RH 192866 1938
4wDM RH 192875 1938
4wDM RH 192885 1939
4wDM RH 193982 1939
4wDM RH 193983 1939
4wDM RH 246236 1948
4wDM RH 260731 1950
4wDM RH 283523 1950
Gauge: MG
4wDM RH 166059 1932
4wDMF RH 244581 1947
Masseys (1920) Ltd, Madras
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 182142 1936
Meik & Buchanan, Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-2ST KS 4049 1921
0-4-0ST KS 4050 1921
George Millar, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0DH RSH 8389 1963
Milne & Co for Rangoon
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0D HC P261 1927
Ministry of Supply, Bombay
Gauge: 60cm
4wDM RH 203002 1941
4wDM RH 203003 1941
Morrison, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 2937 1908
Nixon Forrest
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 287671 1950 (a)
4wDM RH 375311 1954 (b)
4wDM RH 375312 1954 (b)
(a) to Bombay
(b) to Pakistan
Gauge: BG
4wDM RH 269592 1949
Octavius Steel, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-2ST HC 858 1908 (a)
(a) Painted green. Fitted with special hot water injectors
Gauge: MG
0-6-0T OK 12264 1930
Ogilvy Gillanders, Rangoon
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-2ST JF 6445 1891
Orenstein and Arthur Koppel
ADVERT ORENSTIEN & ARTHUR KOPPEL, 7-11 Lyons Street, PO Box 143, Calcutta. Largest stock in India of light railway material
for contractors, collieries, irrigation works, forest works, tea gardens, mills, etc. x
The following information is taken from the Notes & Comment section of the journal Indian Engineering. It is information on
the contracts that OK had for the supply of light railway equipment in India.
Port Commissioners Trust, Calcutta, Kidderpore - Forty double sided steel tipping wagons of 40 cu ft for which OK also
supplied the locomotives for the same contract. Also had at the same time an order for "...a big number of coal tubs...."
for a new colliery in the Central Provinces. xi
Bombay Improvement Trust - 3 miles of track, a number of switches, 30 box tipping wagon and one locomotive. xii
One locomotive 50 hp for coal and liquid fuel (?) together with wagons for a stone quarry. xiii
One 50 hp 06-0T for a limestone quarry. One loco with 50 coal tubs for a colliery in Bengal. 21/4 miles of portable track
with trucks etc for a tea garden. xiv
A Mahratta State for two 30 hp 0-6-0T for wood fuel, 2'0" gauge and end tipping wagons. xv
By August 1910, OK had sold fifty two locomotives in India of all gauges. xiv
One 25 ton steam navigator for a PWD in northern India xvi
61/2 miles of light railway for a tea garden, 33/4 miles of track for another tea garden; 2 miles with points and crossings
for a native state; 40 wagons, 20 sets of points and a miler of track for a PWD irrigation department; a further 20 tipping
wagons for a PWD; one excavator for a native state; a complete track installation for a jute mill; a similar installation for
a wide godown; one 80 hp loco and numerous other orders xvii
Orders received during February exceed 300. Amongst the most important are:- two light locos for the EBSR,; one loco for
Tata Iron Works; one loco to a local coal company; one 20 hp and one 30 hp have been bought by a contractor together with 50
wagons, rails etc;. For a PWD an order has been booked for six miles of light railway, a loco, tipping wagons and points &
crossings. Altogether ten locos were disposed of in the last few weeks. We understand that on account of the improvement in
the coal market, quite considerable quantities of rail, coal tubs etc were despatched to the Jherria Coalfields. Tea Gardens
have also freely ordered new installations and extensions. xviii
Two 18 ton 0-4-0 locos for a 2'6" gauge line; 150 special tipping wagons for the transport of iron ore in Tata's mines;
severasl miles of light railway line, wagons and locos for the temporary works at Delhi (SD note - this was the building of
New Delhi, qv Delhi) ; all the rolling stock for a light railway in Burma; five miles of line with trollies and a loco for a
tea garden; 100's of tipping wagons and coal tubs for various mines. xix
One 70 hp loco and wagons for an unknown customer; large quantities of rails, tipping wagons and coal tubs for various coal
mines xx
A new jute mill ordered a fireless loco. Several locos from 20 to 50 hp have been despatched to coal mines, together with
large quantities of light rails, coal tipping tubs and square tubs. Numerous orders have been booked for light railway
material including locos and contractors wagons to various PWDs. OK have also secured several orders for large quantities of
material for the construction of new BG lines. xxi
150 PWD standard tipping wagons; 31/2 miles of light railway line, 40 wagons and a locomotive; two locos, 2m miles of
railway line with wagons and crossings; one loco and 27 heavy box wagons. 5 miles of light railway line, 150 wagons and two
locos. xxii
Locomotives marked * below were supplied to "British India".
Locomotives marked ( below were supplied to A Koppel for India
Gauge: 2'0"
0-6-0T Jung 613 1902 #
0-6-0T Jung 662 1902 #
BESSIE 0-6-0T Krauss 4799 1902 #
0-4-0T Krauss 5009 1905 #
0-6-0T Jung 1280 1908 #
0-4-0T Maff 2847 1908 #
0-4-0T Maff 2849 1908 #
0-6-0T Maff 2989 1908 #
0-4-0T Jung 1313 1909 #
0-4-0T Krauss 5308 #
0-4-0T Krauss 5383 #
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0T Jung 698 1903
Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 1030 1903
0-4-0T OK 1032 1903
Gauge: 2'6"
0-6-0T OK 5046 1911
Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 810 1902
0-4-0T OK 811 1902
0-4-0T OK 963 1902
0-4-0T OK 964 1902
0-4-0T Krauss 4985 1903 #
0-4-0T OK 1031 1903
KILLICK 0-6-0T OK 1423 1905
NIXON 0-6-0T OK 1424 1905
0-4-0T OK 1593 1905
WISHART 0-4-0T OK 1594 1905
SUTHERLAND 0-4-0T OK 1595 1905
0-6-0T OK 1753 1906
0-6-0T OK 1883 1906
0-4-0T OK 1927 1906
0-4-0T OK 1928 1906
0-4-0T OK 2168 1906
0-4-0T OK 2174 1906
0-6-0T OK 2225 1906
0-6-0T OK 2226 1906
0-6-0T OK 2227 1906
0-6-0T OK 2228 1906
0-6-0T OK 2229 1906
0-6-0T OK 2230 1906
0-4-0T OK 2268 1907
0-4-0T OK 2242 1907
0-4-0T OK 2245 1907
0-4-0T OK 2269 1907
0-4-0T OK 2286 1907
0-4-0T OK 2287 1907
0-4-0T OK 2288 1907
0-4-0T OK 2293 1907
0-6-0T OK 2349 1907
0-4-0T OK 2472 1907
0-4-0T OK 2894 1908 #
0-6-0T OK 3086 1908 #
0-6-0T OK 3087 1908 #
0-4-0T OK 3123 1908
0-4-0T OK 3236 1908
0-4-0T OK 3238 1909
0-4-0T OK 3240 1909
0-4-0T OK 3262 1909
0-4-0T OK 3406 1909
0-4-0T OK 3410 1909
0-4-0T OK 3601 1909
0-4-0T OK 3791 1910
0-4-0T OK 3792 1910
0-4-0T OK 3982 1910
0-4-0T OK 3983 1910
0-4-0T OK 4065 1910
0-4-0T OK 4078 1910
0-4-0T OK 4292 1910
0-4-0T OK 4487 1911
0-4-0T OK 4489 1911
0-6-0T OK 4632 1911
0-4-0T OK 4637 1911
0-4-0T OK 4641 1911 *
0-4-0T OK 4643 1911 *
0-4-0T OK 4716 1911
0-4-0T OK 4717 1911
0-4-0T OK 5133 1912
0-4-0T OK 5134 1912
0-4-0T OK 5135 1912
0-4-0T OK 5254 1912
0-4-0T OK 5319 1912
0-4-0T OK 5323 1912
0-4-0T OK 5336 1912
0-4-0T OK 5337 1912
0-4-0T OK 5339 1912
0-4-0T OK 5370 1912
0-4-0T OK 5476 1912
0-4-0T OK 5477 1912
0-4-0T OK 5478 1912
0-4-0T OK 5988 1912 *
0-6-0T/T OK 6061 1912 *
0-6-0T/T OK 6062 1912 *
0-4-0T OK 6077 1912 *
0-4-0T OK 6078 1912 *
0-4-0T OK 6227 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6228 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6347 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 6348 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 6349 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 6372 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6511 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6527 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6560 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6894 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6895 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6973 1913 *
0-4-0T OK 6974 1913 *
0-6-0T OK 6977 1913
0-6-0T OK 6978 1913
0-4-0T OK 7119 1913 (a)
0-4-0T OK 7145 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 7186 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 7187 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 7189 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 7190 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 7241 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 7242 1914 *
0-4-0T OK 10656 1923 (a)
0-4-0T OK 10657 1923 (a)
0-6-0T OK 10938 1925 (a)
0-6-0T OK 10939 1925 (a)
0-6-0T OK 11150 1925 (a)
0-4-0T OK 11525 1927 (a)
0-6-0T OK 11526 1927 (a)
0-6-0T OK 11651 1928 (a)
0-4-0T OK 11662 1928 (a)
0-6-0T OK 11925 1929 (a)
0-4-0T OK 11928 1930 (a)
(a) for stock
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0T OK 2016 1906
0-6-0T OK 4874 1912
Parry & Co
11 Clive Street, Calcutta. Light Railway Engineers
Stocks in Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. Rails, locomotives, tipping wagons, platform wagons, coal tubs, wheels on axles,
fishplates and bolts, clips and bolts, dog spikes.
Agents: Bombay - Messers Killick Nixon & Co; Rangoon - Messers Steel Brothers and Co; Madras - Messers Parry & Co;
Mauritius - Messers Scott & Co
Suppliers of Light Railway material and locomotives for any gauge xxiii
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0WT AB 1428 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1429 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1450 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1451 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1452 1920
0-6-0ST AB 1494 1917
0-4-0WT AB 1692 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1693 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1695 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1696 1920
0-4-0WT AB 1728 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1729 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1732 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1733 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1743 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1744 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1745 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1746 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1747 1921
0-4-0WT AB 1756 1921
Parrys Engineering
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0WT AB 1762 1923
0-4-0WT AB 1764 1923
0-4-0WT AB 1765 1923
0-4-0WT AB 1766 1923
0-4-0WT AB 1804 1923
0-4-0WT AB 1812 1923
0-4-0WT AB 1813 1923
4wPM MR 2258 1923 (a)
4wPM MR 2259 1923 (a)
4wPM Brookv 604 1925
4wPM Brookv 606 1925
4wPM Brookv 856 1926
4wPM Brookv 904 1926
4wPM Brookv 1016 1927
0-4-0T OK 11370 1927
0-4-0T OK 11566 1928
0-6-0T OK 11606 1928
0-4-0T OK 11643 1929
0-4-0T OK 11644 1929
0-4-0T OK 11658 1929
0-6-0T OK 12299 1931
(a) to Calcutta
(b) to India 1931
Parry Murray
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 10521 1923
0-4-0T OK 10595 1923
0-4-0T OK 11061 1925
0-4-0T OK 11087 1925
0-4-0T OK 11088 1925
0-6-0T OK 11113 1925
0-6-0T OK 11127 1925
0-4-0T Hens 20678 1926
0-4-0T Hens 20679 1926
0-6-0WT AB 2233 1947
0-6-0WT AB 2234 1947
0-6-0WT AB 2235 1947
0-6-0WT AB 2240 1947
0-4-0WT AB 2283 1949
Planters Stores & Agency
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM RH 218013 1947
Railways & Industrial Equipment, Calcutta
10 Mercantile Buildings, Calcutta. Sole agents for OK.xxiv
Gauge: 2'0"
0-6-0T OK 10414 1922 (a)
0-6-0T OK 10415 1922
0-6-0T OK 10522 1922
0-6-0T OK 10527 1922
(a) reported at "a derelict colliery near Durgapur". The identity was assumed (identified from motion?) along with the
frames of a four coupled locomotive. xxv
Ruston & Hornsby, India
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDH HE 6074 1963
4wDH HE 6090 1963
4wDH HE 6091 1963
4wDH HE 6092 1963
Secretary of State for India
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-2ST(?) JF 4526 1883
0-4-0ST(?) JF 4527 1883
Gauge: 2'6"
0-4-0T MW 1526 1901 (a)
0-4-0T MW 1615 1903 (b)
(a) to Calcutta
(b) to Ishapur
Gauge: BG
0-6-0ST MW 1358 1897 (a)
(a) Possibly supplied to Tata Power Co Ltd, Unknown location, Bombay
Seth Apcar, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
SUTARAM 0-4-0ST MW 508 1875
CHURAMPORE 0-6-0 MW 615 1876
PONIATA 0-6-2T MW 1706 1906
0-6-2T MW 1707 1906
Stothert & Pitt
Gauge: 2'0"
SOUDAN 2-4-0T WB 512 1886
John Taylor & Sons
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDH RH 416219 1957
Gauge: 2'6"
4wDH RH 416223 1957
Francis Theakston
Gauge: 2'0"
UBIQUE 0-4-0PM AE 1915 1922 (a)
0-4-0ST KS 4293 1923 (b)
(a) UBIQUE is the regimental motto of the Royal Engineers, meaning "Everywhere". Was this a military locomotive?
(b) shipped to Calcutta
Gauge: 2'6"
0-6-0T AE 1914 1922
Topham, Jones & Railton, Assam
Gauge: 2'0"
4wPM FH 1743 1931
4wPM FH 1744 1931
4wPM FH 1755 1931
4wPM FH 1756 1931
4wPM FH 1757 1931
4wPM FH 1758 1931
4wPM FH 1759 1931
Tozer, Kemsley & Fisher for India
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T AE 1560 1908
0-4-0T AE 1561 1908
0-4-0T AE 1562 1908
Villers & Co, London shipped to Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0ST KS 4159 1921
0-4-0ST KS 4160 1921
Volkhart Brothers
Gauge: 2'0"
4wP Brookv 1463 1929
Walsh Lovatt & Co
Gauge: 2'0"
LUCKEE 0-6-0ST HE 163 1876
SHIBPORE 0-6-0ST HE 194 1877
0-6-0T HE 430 1887
0-6-0T HE 474 1888
Gauge: 2'6"
TANSA 0-6-0T HE 430 1887 (1)
BASSIEN 0-6-0T HE 474 1888
(1) Sold to Barsi Light Railway as a construction locomotive.
J Weatherspoon & Co
Bombay
Gauge: 2'6"
2w-2PMR Wkm 6047 1952
Karachi
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0DM HC D583 1934
4wDM HC D588 1936
Wilcox (Buckwell, India)
Gauge: 2'6"
4wDM Brookv 3424 1948
Williamson, Meyer & Co, Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T OK 2637 1908
A Young & Co, Bombay
Gauge: 2'0"
0-4-0T KS 695 1900
0-4-0T KS 696 1900
0-4-0T KS 697 1900
0-4-0T KS 698 1900
0-4-0T KS 699 1900
0-4-0T KS 700 1900
0-4-0T AE 1434 1901
Yule Catto & Co Ltd
Gauge:
4wDMF RH 467631 1961 (a)
(a) to Calcutta
Gauge: 2'0"
4wDM HE 6003
Gauge: 3'6"
4wDMF RH 314239 1951
4wDMF RH 314240 1951
4wDMF RH 314241 1951
4wDMF RH 373353 1954
4wDMF RH 373355 1954
4wDMF RH 373356 1954
i Advert, IE 30/9/1922
ii Burdwan, Bengal Gazetteer 1910
iii IRG 10/1911
iv IE 24/02/1912
v IE, 1910, 1911
vi Advert, Indian Railway Gazzette, Jan 1917
vii CRJ No 43
viii Advert, Indian Railway Gazzette, Jan 1917
ix Advert IE 06/01/1912
x IE 9/1910
xi IE 9/1910
xii IE 22/10/1910
xiii IE 29/10/1910
xiv IE 31/12/1910
xv IE ?/1910
xvi IE 29/01/1910
xvii IE 27/1/1912
xviii IE 24/02/1912
xix IE 28/09/1912
xx IE 11/01/1913
xxi IE 15/03/1913
xxii IE 17/05/1913
xxiii Advert, Indian Railway Gazette, Jan 1917 et al
xxiv Advert, IRG April 1924
xxv IRS 110/4
