Surviving and Preserved locomotives in East, South East and North East Frontier India
This album contains pictures of surviving and preserved locomotives in Eastern, South Eastern and North East Frontier India.
WG #8407 christened 'Deshbandhu' now plinthed at the Loco Park at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, WB. This is one of the two preserved WGs in India. The other was based in the same location but now seems to have been shifted. 2008-06-20 (Samit Roychoudhury
Famus East Indian Railways HGS 26761 , which was used to haul a heritage train between Howrah and Bandel on 9th of September 1999. This Loco was Built by W.M. Beardmore Company, England in the year 1920.
DHR Loco with a First Class Coach is one of three prime exhibits in Howrah Rail Museum.
Hall of Fame exhibits YG 3403 , used in the Badarpur Shed built / Renovated by Tata Engineering and Locomotive.
1855 2-2-2 Locomotive 'Express'. I believe this is a sister loco to Fairy Queen is accompanied by an old 4 wheel saloon
David Churchill 16 Feb 06
Remains of 'A' class DHR locomotive at Tindharia shed, February 2007, by Dave Harris. (Uploaded by SP.) (Dave Harris)
This 40 ton breakdown steam crane was built by Ransomes and Rapier at Ipswich, England in 1924. It was originally based at Shahdol during Bengal Nagpur Railway days and it was in service as recently as 1998. Courtesy Saibal Bose.
Narrow Gauge PL Class Steam Locomotive #694 plinthed at Vishakapatnam (Harish Kumar)
Portion of a loco containing twenty eight (4-8-2+2-8-4) wheels. (Rahul)
A view of two tiny industrial locomotives, on display at Arunachal Plywood Industries Limited, at a small town of Namsai, in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. Both of them are 0-6-0 tank, manufactured by M/s Andrew Barclay & Sons, Ltd., in their Ca
An appreciable effort of Katwa Narrow Gauge loco shed employees. Apart from performing their regular duties, they kept one of their iconic locomotive so well maintained! everywhere else these are maintained by Heritage Directorate of Indian Rail. (Shubhab
Telco built YG #3213 of old Mariani Steam Locoshed is now plinthed outside Mariani station. The loco served last on 7th March 1997, but the introductory board in the front provides some wrong information regarding that. I remember the thence station maste
MAWD class steam locomotive stationed in front of New Jalpaiguri station. 2012-02-05. (Lalam)
CC 670 "Indrani" a Narrow Gauge loco showcased within a beautifully maintained garden outside Durgapur Station. This is the best view of the loco one can have. (Avishek Basu)
Bio-data of the loco written on the side face of the loco. Spot the spelling mistake. :) (Avishek Basu)
Originally built for the Karachi Port Trust by the British firm of Dick Kerr & Co in 1910, this beautiful 2'6" locomotive with an oversize chimney also worked at the Marala timber depot for 1917-1922, after which it was finally brought to the cre
Two steam locos belonging to NFR lie idle captioned as ‘Our Heritage’ just outside the NJP station. (Pramit Mitra)
Mariani Steam Locoshed after condemnation - 1
YP 2131 in the pic
(Photo by: Dr. Abhinav Prakash Mahanta, Scan by: Santulan Mahanta) (Santulan Mahanta)
Mariani Steam Locoshed after condemnation - 2
YG 3382 which was the last operating steam loco in Tinsukia division.
(Photo by: Dr. Abhinav Prakash Mahanta, Scan by: Santulan Mahanta) (Santulan Mahanta)
Mariani Steam Locoshed after condemnation - 3
The date was 7th March 1997, the last steam train in Tinsukia division of NFR was hauled in Mariani-Jorhat Junction-Jorhat Twon- Furkating loop. A reversal was necessary at Jorhat Junction (popularly...