HPS 24238 Ranaghat
Eastern Railway broad gauge HPS 24238 at Ranaghat on 1979.02.03
As a post war stop gap Vulcan Foundry built just over 100 HPS between 1946 and 1950 to a 1920s BESA design. In 1979 nearly all were still in service on the Eastern, Northern and Southern Railways, but within a year or two most had been withdrawn.