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Indian locomotive class WM
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Vulcan Foundry· from 1939· class of 70+4 Indian 2-6-4T locomotives
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. WM works photo, 1942 (2): unknown - works photo - photographer not identified· Public domain
- 2. WM works photo, 1942 (1): unknown - works photo - photographer not identified· Public domain
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WM was a class of 2-6-4T tank locomotives used on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad-gauge lines in India from 1942. A total of 70 of them were delivered new, and another four were converted from existing class WV engines. The ten prototypes of the WM class, the first 30 production units, and the four WV class locomotives that were later converted to WMs, were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England.
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 87 years ago, in 1939.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1939–1954
- in service from
- 1939
- number built
- 70
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Vulcan Foundry, Indian locomotive class WV, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns
- operators
- Indian Railways, East Indian Railway Company, Great Indian Peninsula Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-4
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17104721, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WM (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.