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Indian locomotive class WCP-2
🇮🇳 India ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1938· class of 1 Indian electric locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. WCP-2: Count of Dombivli· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WCP-2 (originally classified as EA/2) is a 1.5 kV DC electric locomotive built in 1938 by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Direct Current (C), Passenger traffic (P) engine, 2nd generation (2). Essentially identical to the EA/1 (WCP-1), the lone WCP-2 served passenger trains until its withdrawal in the 1980s.
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 88 years ago, in 1938.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1938
- retired
- 1980
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Metropolitan-Vickers
- operators
- Indian Railways, Great Indian Peninsula Railway
- top speed
- 137 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- electric system
- 1500 volts D.C.
- wheel arrangement
- 2’Bo(A1)
- length
- 16.3 m
- weight
- 100 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q25385776, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WCP-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.