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National Railway Museum, New Delhi

The list of exhibits is taken from the Indian Railways Mailing List, and I have used it to structure the sub-catalogue.

You might also be interested in visiting S.Shankar's National Rail Musueum Page

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

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 1819578 bytes, 3844x2883 pixels Date : Sep 1999, catalogued 16 Aug 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 20176 Description : One of the earliest examples of a Sharp Stewart machine, the slender and graceful B-26 was used for mixed traffic operations between Lucknow and Cawnpore (Kanpur) on the Oudh and Rohilkhund Railway. She was retired from service in 1921. The engine is said to be fitted with a two-tone whistle to give a very pleasing whistle tone. (from the web site)

  
  

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 106252 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : Sep 1999, catalogued 16 Aug 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 20177 Description : One of the earliest examples of a Sharp Stewart machine, the slender and graceful B-26 was used for mixed traffic operations between Lucknow and Cawnpore (Kanpur) on the Oudh and Rohilkhund Railway. She was retired from service in 1921. The engine is said to be fitted with a two-tone whistle to give a very pleasing whistle tone. (from the web site)

  
  
• 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 Beyer Peacock 6505/1928

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 146453 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : Sep 1999, catalogued 16 Aug 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 20178 Description : Built in 1928 by Bayer peacock Co., Manchester this locomotive was used for hump yard shunting in North Western Railway and later in Eastern punjab Railway. Originally a 0-8-0 with an axle load of 23 tons, this locomotive was rebuilt at the Mughalpura workshops in 1943 as a 2-8-2 with extended frames and reduced axle of 19 tons as the high axle load resulted in damage to the track.

  
  
• 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

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 130563 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : Mar 1994, catalogued 03 Jan 2001 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image Description : 1-A-A-A-2? What sort of wheel arrangement is that? Some frustrated steam loco designer must have been told to build an express passenger electric loco, and this is what he came up with! Complete with sanding boxes, mark. I wonder if it ever had a tender behind? Having been to Delhi, I don't doubt it!!

  
  
• GIPR EF/1-20027 Sir Leslie Wilson C-C MetVick

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 132474 bytes, 900x600 pixels Date : Mar 1994, catalogued 03 Jan 2001 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image Description : As a frustrated power engineer, I just love those big old-fashioned traction motors! "Steam driven" electric, that.

  
  
• 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 items are all Meter gauge:

• SIR (Nilgiri rack Line) X-37385 0-8-2T SLM 1920

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 121994 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : Mar 1994, catalogued 03 Jan 2001 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image Description : Valve gear aplenty on this Nilgiri Rack Railway 0-8-2T (note the wheel spacing).

  
  
• Jodphur Railway 31412/HP 4-6-2 Baldwin 1948

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 136412 bytes, 900x600 pixels Date : Mar 1994, catalogued 03 Jan 2001 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image Description : Stewart didn't know much about this loco, nor did I, some some hunting on the web revealed this list of locos, and the fact that this, the first entry in my Indian National Rail Museum page, is a metre gauge (note spelling!) pacific, built by Baldwin in 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

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 118156 bytes, 900x601 pixels Date : Sep 1999, catalogued 16 Aug 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome Description : A nice chunky engine. Apparently the first steam loco built in India.

  
  
• Rajputana Railway 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 items 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:

• DHR B-777 0-4-0ST Sharp Stewart Glasgow 3517/1889

  Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 136980 bytes, 900x600 pixels Date : Mar 1994, catalogued 06 Jan 2001 Photographer : Stewart Hughes Medium : email digital image Description : Stewart writes: This loco is for sure from the Darjeeling narrow guage line - it looks identical and is in the same number sequence.

  
  
• 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

Image : dir=asia/india/ page=NRM 106520 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : Sep 1999, catalogued 16 Aug 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 20174 Description : This little train runs around the NRM - the loco is actually a diesel-driven machine, not steam, unfortunately! The track has some interesting civil engineering works, vis a vis other tracks within the museum.

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