The Complete Set

778

Type: 4-6-0T, Date: 1917, Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA (Works No. 44656)

One of 495 locomotives built by Baldwin, for the War Department Light Railways. They operated on the thousands of miles of narrow-gauge tracks that supplied the front line trenches in the First World War. It then worked in India until the 1980s, finishing at the Upper India Sugar Mills in Uttar Pradesh. The first of its type to steam in Britain since the late 1940s, it has recently completed a major overhaul.

778 is seen here along with "Rishra" and No.740.

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All four locos with Indian connections on shed.