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Indian locomotive class XB
🇮🇳 India ·built by Vulcan Foundry· from 1927· class of 99 Indian 4-6-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Indian State XB class 1927 photo: Vulcan Foundry Official Photo - photographer unknown· Public domain
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class XB was a 4-6-2 (or Pacific) passenger locomotive with a 17-long-ton (17 t; 19-short-ton) axle load. It was one of several standard designs drawn up in the early 1920s as part of the Indian Railway Standard (IRS) series. The class suffered many teething troubles early in their service career, and after several modifications were made, the XBs were in service until 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 99 years ago, in 1927.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927–1936
- retired
- 1983
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 99
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Vulcan Foundry, Armstrong Whitworth, North British Locomotive Company
- designer
- M/s Rendel Palmer and Tritton
- operators
- Indian Railways, Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, East Indian Railway Company, Eastern Bengal Railway, South Indian Railway Company, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway
- top speed
- 116 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16985994, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class XB (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.