Rishra (locomotive)
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Rishra (works number 2007) was built in 1921 by Baguley Cars Ltd. Following a working life in India it is now preserved at the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, Bedfordshire, England.
It is the one of only 31 Baguley steam locomotives built.[1]
History
[edit]Baguley Cars Ltd took the order on 7 July 1919 for their works number 2007 2 ft (610 mm) 0-4-0T locomotive and delivered in on 28 November 1921 to Light Railways Ltd.[1]
The locomotive was used by the Calcutta Corporation for shunting coal wagons at a water pumping station in Barrackpore, India.[2]
Left abandoned in undergrowth, it was rescued in 1963 by Michael Satow[a], a senior executive of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), who had the locomotive restored at the Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company, Rishra, Kolkata (Calcutta).[2][b]
It was repatriated to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in England by Satow in 1971.[2]
It is one of only four preserved locomotives fitted with Baguley valve gear, similar to the Bagnall-Price gear which was adopted by Bagnall after Ernest E. Baguley left that firm.[citation needed]
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Satow founded the Indian National Rail Museum in New Delhi.[2]
- ^ It seems likely this is the origin of naming of the locative as Rishra.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b Lowe (2014), p. 43.
- ^ a b c d IRFCA (2021).
Sources
[edit]- "Locomotives: Preserved locos, Names, Miscellaneous". Indian Railways Fan Club. Locomotives transferred or exported outside India. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- Lowe, James W. (2014) [1975]. British Steam Locomotives Builders. Pen & Sword Transport. ISBN 978-1-47382-289-4. OCLC 889509628.
External links
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- "Rishra". Festipedia.
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