XB Class 4-6-2 passenger locomotives from the IRS era were somewhat of a mixed bag in performance. However, despite issues with poor ride quality and being even blamed for causing disastrous accidents these lomotives made it into the early 1980s. No. 1914 was from the second batch of XB class locomotives supplied by Vulcan Foundry to East Indian Railway in 1927. Image provided by Graeme Pilkington, from the Vulcan Foundry web site.