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Indian locomotive class XC
🇮🇳 India ·built by William Beardmore and Company· from 1928· class of 72 Indian 4-6-2 locomotives
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class XC was a class of heavy axle load 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad-gauge lines in British India, and then in post-partition India and Pakistan. The 72 members of the class were built in the United Kingdom between 1928 and 1931, some of them by William Beardmore & Co in Glasgow, Scotland, and the rest by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England. Upon partition of India in 1947, a total of 22 members of the class went to Pakistan.
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 98 years ago, in 1928.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1928–1931
- number built
- 72
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- William Beardmore and Company, Vulcan Foundry
- operators
- Indian Railways, history of rail transport in Pakistan, East Indian Railway Company, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, North Western Railway
- 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 Q17088779, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class XC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.