#6219
DHR B Class 778
🇮🇳 India ·built by Sharp, Stewart and Company· preserved DHR B class locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DHR 778 05-05-01 15: No machine-readable author provided. AHEMSLTD~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY 2.5
what is it?
DHR 778 (originally number 19) is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, that was built in 1889 for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. It is preserved in the United Kingdom, and is the only DHR locomotive outside of India. The engine currently has the oldest locomotive boiler still in use anywhere in the world.
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.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- retired
- 1960
- status
- in service
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Sharp, Stewart and Company
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 610 mm 2 ft narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
- nicknames
- Little Blue
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5205049, Wikipedia: DHR B Class 778 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.