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Indian locomotive class XP
🇮🇳 India ·built by Vulcan Foundry· from 1937· class of 2 Indian 4-6-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. XP works photo, 1935: unknown - works photo - photographer not identified· Public domain
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class XP was a class of experimental 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad-gauge lines in India. The two members of the class were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, to an order placed by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) in 1935.
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 89 years ago, in 1937.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Vulcan Foundry
- operators
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Indian Railways
- top speed
- —
- 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 Q17092413, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class XP (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.