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Indian locomotive class WG
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1950· class of 2450 Indian 2-8-2 locomotives
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- 1. 745 IndiaBareilly 19931227: MaltaGC (Nigel Tout)· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian Railways WG class was a type of broad gauge 2-8-2 goods locomotive introduced in the 1950s. 2,450 of the class were built between 1950 and 1970, making them the most numerous class of mainline locomotives until the advent of WDM-2.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 1.9 MW is about 23 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1970
- in service from
- 1950
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2,450
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company, Vulcan Foundry, Société Franco-Belge, Ansaldo, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Henschel & Sohn, Hitachi, Friedrich Krupp AG
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- weight
- 103 t
- nicknames
- Deshbandhu, Antim sitara, Ashtabhuji, etc.
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6022620, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WG (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.