Where can I find plinthed or preserved locos in India?
Some information is provided below. Also see the locomotive lists which detail steam survivors in south Asia, preserved
locos in Sri Lanka, etc., and also the industrial loco list which has information on many preserved locomotives in India and other south Asian countries. The page on steam locomotives and the current steam page have some more information.
Note: In the lists below, “[NA]” indicates a locomotive that is not (readily) accessible to the public.
WP locomotives
There are 7 WP’s preserved in India; all are in good enough condition to allow steaming; two (7015 and 7161) have gone on trial runs recently [2/00] after being refitted for air brakes and being overhauled at Charbagh Workshops.
The National Rail Museum has a WP/P (Baldwin prototype for WP class), #7200.
The NRM also has WP’s 7015 and 7161 which have been steamed recently [2/00, 4/02] and are in good working condition.
The Jhansi Institute has a WP (#7656 (7056?).
The Charbagh Workshops
have a WP (#7278).
The Sonpur DRM’s office has a WP (#7581F).
Bhusawal Station has preserved a WP loco (#7000).
The railway museums at New Delhi and Mysore have quite a few preserved locos. Partial listings are given below. For a complete list of exhibits at the NRM, refer to the related web pages listed under the section on museums.
[2000] At Dapodi, near Pune, there is a sort of open-air loco museum, where the CME and staff have arranged for the preservation of a couple of steam locomotives, a steam crane, various other stationary and mobile steam engines, and other miscellaneous exhibits of machinery and also some defence-related items such as a Patton tank, a World War 2 era bridge layer, etc.
National Railway Museum
The following are all Broad Gauge
Nizam’s Guaranteed State Railway A-48 4-6-0 Dubs & Co 2787/1891
Indian Branch Railway Ramgotty 0-4-0T Anjubault of Paris 1862
Oudh and Rohilkund Railway B-26 0-6-0 Sharp Stewart of Manchester 2018/1870
North Western Railway ST-707 0-6-2T NBL 1904
North Western Railway HG/C-1598 2-8-0 Vulcan Foundry 2461/1909
EIR XT/1-36863 0-4-2T Krupp 1538/1935
GIPR EM-922 4-4-0 NBL 17780/1907
SIR 11-PT 2-6-4T RS 4118/1936
NWR XG/M-911 2-8-2 BP 6505/1928
EIR Phoenix 1354 0-4-0WT Nasmyth-Wilson 798/1907
BNR N 815 4-8-0+0-8-4 BP 6594/1930. (Numbers suspect: BP 6588 was #815, BP 6594 was #921.)
GIPR Crane Tank 3 0-6-0T HL 3538/1923
GIPR EA-1-4006 Sir Roger Lumley 1-A-A-A-2 SLM/MetVick 1930
GIPR EF/1-20027 Sir Leslie Wilson C-C MetVick
BBCI EMU-35b Bo-Bo Cammel Laird 1928
GIPR 22907-AWE 2-8-2 Baldwin 69703/1943
HPS2-24467 4-6-0 Vulcan Foundry 1950
Sindhri Fertilisers 0-4-0 Fireless Henschell 25630/1953
GIPR WP/P-7200 4-6-2 Baldwin 73408/1947
The following are all Meter Gauge
SIR (Nilgiri rack Line) X-37385 0-8-2T SLM 1920
Jodphur Railway 31412/HP 4-6-2 Baldwin 1948
BNWR YB/2-429 4-6-2 Nasmyth-Wilson 1613/1935
Jaipur State Railway TJ-643 0-6-0T WB 2646/1942
Rajputana Malwa Railway F-734 0-6-0 Ajmer Workshops 1895
Rajputana Railway (Jodhpur Rly.) E-207 0-4-2ST Dubs 1175/1878
Southern Mahratta Railway FMA-37302 0-6-0 Dubs 2373/1888
BBCI M2-162 4-4-0 Ajmer Workshops 1923/24
SIR YCG-1 21900 Bo-Bo HL/EE 1930
Gondal State Railway 1004 0-6-0 Fowler Diesel 4200031/1949
Rajputana Malwa Railway P-31652 4-6-0 Ajmer Workshops 171/1922/3
The following are all 2′ 6″ gauge
Decauville Railway on North West frontier 2-4-2ST WB 507/1902
Kalka Simla Railway KS12 Petrol engined railcar Wickhams of Ware 1931
Bankura Damodar River Light Railway Sentinel BDR-8 6W Sentinel 8135/1929
Kalka Simla Railway Railcar no 14 diesel electric Armstrong Whitworth 1933
Gaekwar’s Baroda State Railway Wt-594 0-6-4T WB/1925
BNR RD-688 2-6-2 Nasmyth-Wilson 1929
Betty Tramways Rajkot, 0-4-0 Fowler diesel 390014
Karachi Port Trust MTR-2 0-4-2T Dick Kerr 1910
NWR 2-6-2T ZF-107 Henschell 22589/1934
EIR CS-775 2-4-0T WB 1927
The following are all 2′ 0″ gauge
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DHR B-777 0-4-0ST Sharp Stewart Glasgow 3517/1889
Matheran Light Railway MLR-738 0-6-0T O&K 2342/1907
Ledo Coal Mines A/885 0-4-2ST WB 1897
Matheran Light Railway Railcar No 899 Grashame/1932
Patiala State Monorail 0-3-0
O&K 1907
Mysore Railway Museum
The following are MG
Mysore Steel Works ? E37244 4-4-4T NBL 22782/1920
TS 37338 2-6-2T WB (Bagnall) 2432/1932
The following are Narrow gauge
NWR E119 2-4-2T WB 1625/1900 (2’6″ gauge)
ES 506 4-6-2, KS 4237/1922
An Austin car converted to run on rails.
Plinthed and preserved locos at other locations
Two 2’6″ gauge 2-8-2 Nasmyth & Co ‘F’ class locos (+ tenders) outside the Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN) which itself is in the Pune station complex. These were used on the Barsi Light Railway between Kurduwadi and Latur.
A plinthed loco (class G) built by Hunslet Engine Co. in 1949, serial 3669 in the same complex. It was introduced in 1923 on the Kurduwadi – Pandharpur section of the Barsi Light Railway. It was transferred to the Murtajapur – Yewatmal section in 1983. It was finally retired 13th April 1994.
Two more such locos are in storage behind the WDS 4 trip shed in the Up yard of Pune Jn.
An MTR NG engine at the NR headquarters, Delhi. [NA]
A ‘B’ class 0-4-0 2′ NG engine (799 NBL 23292/1925) of the DHR outside the Rail Bhavan (IR Headquarters) in Delhi. [NA]
A ‘B’ class 0-4-0 2′ NG loco of the DHR at the National Rail Museum.
A ‘B’ class 0-4-0 2′ NG loco of the DHR at the DCME’s office, New Bongaigaon.
KC 520, formerly of Kalka, was plinthed at the lawns of the DRM’s office at Ambala (1km south of Ambala Cantt.) This was the last steam loco used on the Kalka-Shimla railway for steam specials until the 1970s. [7/01] This has now been renovated and is slated to run on the Kalka-Simla route again.
PL 692 at Puri, badly repainted
PL 697 (misnumbered as 997 on a replacement plate) at Bangalore, also badly repainted.
An NG engine outside Rail Nilayam — SC headquarters at Secunderabad [NA]
A YCG/1 MG electric (21901) outside the MG EMU car shed at Tambaram in Madras [NA]
A P-38811 (BP 6594) 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt at the Kharagpur loco shed. (Some reports say it is an N class 4-8-0+0-8-4 loco. [NA]
An MLR 0-6-0T (O&K, ISR #741) on the hilltop at Matheran station.
A Baldwin tank engine at the Bhadravati Steel Works HQ [NA]
Fairy Queen’s sister loco, the ‘Express’ at Jamalpur workshop [NA]
A NG engine from the SE outside Bangalore City station.
An FMA class 0-6-0 mg engine at the Visweswaraya Industrial Museum in Bangalore (FM-A 037311). This is an FM that was rebuilt as an FM-A with enhanced coal capacity.
An FM class 0-6-0 mg engine at the National Rail Museum in New Delhi (FM 37302). (Some reports that this is also a rebuilt FM-A.)
An MG 2-6-4T loco (563K of BB&CI, built by Kerr Stuart in 1929) at Bombay Central (was used on the Dabhoi network).
A 2′ NG 4-6-2 (“class C”) steamer from the Kishanganj branch of the DHR (built by North British, 1914), and a WCP/1 electric along with a horse drawn tram and a 1907 electric tram at the Nehru Science Centre in Bombay
The other 2′ NG 4-6-2 C-class steam loco from the Kishanganj branch of the DHR (also built in 1914 by North British) is preserved at the NEFR headquarters at Maligaon. (It used to be at the Tata Institute in Bombay.)
A type ‘T’ tramway loco (#603, 4-8-0, built by WB, 1935, makers #2538)from Morvi, #4 of Saurashtra Railway, is plinthed outside the Western Railways office at Pratapnagar.
The first loco (F-1) made in Ajmer Loco shop is at the National Rail Museum in New Delhi.
There is a steam loco and a diesel loco on display at DLW plant in Varanasi. The steam is “Hercules” (0-4-0) and the diesel is “Mahalaxmi”, a GE 45 Ton. They also planned to save a couple of the YDM-3/ YDM-5 (of the 3 that were left in Sabarmati).
A CS 776 steam loco is plinthed at the Jamalpur Gymkhana; although some reports say it has been moved to DLW, Varanasi. ??
DLW at Varanasi also has one of the GE diesels supplied by USATC in 1944.
An MLR 0-6-0T (O&K, ISR #739) is plinthed in the Parel Loco Shed.
Howrah Jn has an NG loco (AK 16) between the circulating area and the ferry wharf. This is probably from the old Howrah-Amta Light Railway.
Mumbai VT had a Neral-Matheran Orenstein & Koppel loco (different from the one at Matheran). (Still there??)
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Bhusawal loco shed has a WG loco (#10523).
Bhusawal loco shed also has two B/1 locos: Nos. 766 and 768.
Outside the Jaipur station is OJ 641, a 4-4-0 WB 1943 MG loco.
Outside the Jhansi station is ZE #29, built by Krauss Munich (17813) in 1952. (Earlier reports suggested builder’s info KS 4403/1928 which seems unlikely.) This is a 2’6″ NG loco.
ZE #18, ex-SER, built in 1951 by Corpet Louvet, La Corneuve, is plinthed just outside Purulia station. This used to haul NG passenger trains on the Purulia-Ranchi-Lohardaga route.
Jabalpur has a ZE plinthed in the eastern entrance to the station complex.
Daund has a ZE plinthed in the railway training institute.
Thermax Limited (a private company in Pune) has an ex-army Hudswell Clark loco ‘Reunion Mail’ which they rescued from a scrap yard in Pune. The loco is plinthed in their headquarters minus the steam dome and sporting a dazzling blue paint. It is a 0-4-0WT built in 1919, builder’s number 1336.
A N-38815 (BP 6594) 4-8-0+0-8-4 Garratt at the National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
An X class loco (#37390) of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway is plinthed just outside the Coonoor railway station.
The National Rail Museum has one of the MG diesel-mechanical locos supplied by Fowler in 1949 and used in Saurashtra.
A NG steam loco from the Bengal Nagpur Rly. is plinthed at the CR/SER Divisional HQ near the Nagpur station. Class? Serial number is 615.
A ZE loco is plinthed at the Motibagh Narrow Gauge Workshop at Nagpur.
A GX-32086 (BP 7144) 4-8-2+2-8-4 MG Garratt at the Guwahati steam shed [NA]
YP 2616 is plinthed outside the NER DRM’s office at Lucknow station (the NER station, Ashok Road).
YP 2508 is plinthed at Kacheguda railway station.
YP 2805 (built by TELCO, Jamshedpur, 1968), ex-Ratlam and ex-Rajkot divisions of WR, is plinthed at Patna. This loco was working until the end of the Wankaner-Morbi steam services.
A ‘B’ class tank loco, #800, of the DHR is plinthed at the NR Lucknow Jn. station (in a park opposite the portico).
Another ‘B’ class, #785, is plinthed at Dehradun station.
And yet another ‘B’ class, #803, is plinthed at Moradabad.
A ZE (#55??) is plinthed in front of the RDSO premises (Lucknow).
A 0-6-2T Bagnall NG (2’6″) loco built in 1923, bearing plate number 585W and formerly of the Billimora Loco Shed, is currently [1/00] at the Bandra diesel shed and due to be plinthed at the Churchgate WR headquarters. This loco used to ply the Billimora-Waghai route of the Gaekwar’s Baroda State Rly.
“Baby Sivok”, a 0-4-0 DHR loco was plinthed at Siliguri Jn. for many years, but is now [2/00] reported as undergoing restoration work.
CS 774 (Bagnall?) at ER headquarters, Fairlie Place, Calcutta.
A Central Railway YP(?) loco at the offices of Suri and Nayar at Whitefield, near Bangalore.
One condemned YAM-1 loco is said to be [1/05] with the Chittaranjan Loco Works. It is not clear if it is to be preserved.
NA 791, a 4-4-0 from the Gwalior Light
Railways (original number 2A), the Maharaja’s personal locomotive, used to be at the Gwalior palace grounds but is now in front of the Gwalior station. Kerr Stuart, 1895.
NH/2 750, a 2-8-2 from the Gwalior Light Railways (Kerr Stuart, 1922), is on the porch of the Area Manager’s Office at Gwalior.
Some YPs and YGs are at Wankaner but in deep disrepair and decay.
The Jai Vilas Palace at Gwalior has preserved Gwalior State Railcars (Wickhams, Rolls-Royce).
An NG loco, (most likely ZB 73) is said to have been refurbished and given to the Patna botanical gardens. This loco is probably steamable, having been overhauled at Pratapnagar in 1991.
The Calcutta Science Museum is said to have some exhibits of locomotives and preserved rolling stock.
And finally: A full-scale replica of the Fairy Queen at Vijayawada
Source – IFRCA.org
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