#2857
Indian locomotive class WP
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1947· class of 755 Indian 4-6-2 locomotives
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- 1. 682 IndiaDelhiMuseum 19931226: MaltaGC (Nigel Tout)· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WP are a class of 4-6-2 "Pacific" passenger steam locomotives used in India introduced in 1947 for passenger services. The class were assigned the newly-implemented (and current) classification letter for broad gauge locomotives, W from the previously used X, when the class and the post-war broad gauge locomotive designs for Indian railways it was part of were introduced. WP class locomotives were capable of going up to 110 km/h (68 mph) and had bullet-nose casings fitted on their smokeboxes, which would often have a star painted on it.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 79 years ago, in 1947.
- 2 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 23.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1947–1967
- in service from
- 1947
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 755
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Canadian Locomotive Company, Montreal Locomotive Works, Fablok, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
- length
- 23.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6022623, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WP (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.