India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan and China photographs

Indina Railways:

Calcutta Conversion, multiple unit stock – conversion to 25kV

India 25kV Prototype Multiple Unit

Diesel Bo-Bo shunter in an Indian steelworks

Building Indian Central Railways broad gauge Co-Co locomotive

25kV Indian Prototype multiple unit

Calcutta AEI equipped EMU

Madras suburban multiple unit – English Electric, built 1931

Southern Railway of India Bo-Bo loco built 1931 ‘EC1’ works photo

Drewry 0-4-0 shunter – Calcutta Electric Supply, loco No 2128

Bombay Baroda locomotive – DP battery (239 cells)

HSPL Durgapur Bo-Bo Diesel Electric BTH/AEI/Yorkshire Engine Co, also 230hp 0-4-0 Diesel Electric shunters – Hindustan Steel Ltd

WIPR 0-6-0 shunter “D1”

Fertilizer Company of India – AEI/Yorkshire 512hp 0-6-0 Diesel Electric shunter

English Electric 350hp 0-6-0 Diesel Hydraulic flameproof loco for a refinery in Southern India

NWIR Diesel Electric Bo-Bo locomotive

Combined battery/trolley locomotive for General Colliery Office, Ballarpur – English Electric Co

Trolley/cable reel loco 36” gauge plus battery/trolley locomotive (without cab) – Punjab

4-wheel two wire overhead shunter – India. Use trolleybus type overhead and the current collectors are narrow pantographs probably with trolley wheels on the top

Cochin refinery, South India, 350hp 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic shunter – English Electric

Inspection bay side of Eastern Railway car shed at Calcutta

BB&CI Ry (Bombay, Baroda & Central India Rly) 4-4-0 No 107

2-6-4T 9034 WM – built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 1953

2-6-2 2801 YL - built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 1952

Diesel railbus, Contract I233

Nizam – Diesel mechanical railcar – engine mounted in the bogie. Photos of a model, of construction, of bogies and completed vehicles. Vehicles numbered “DB1” and “DB2”. Seats have “NSR” on the backs. Built by Drewry. Engine was built by Gardner, Patricroft, Manchester.

Includes a photo of a 4-wheel coach.

Bangladesh Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives. Built at Metro-Cammell with EE-AEI traction equipment for Pakistan Eastern Railway.

Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns and Bagnall 0-4-0 diesel shunter “Gammon Pegson” No 2

Pakistan Western 25kV Bo-Bo locomotives – thyristor control

Imperial Government Railways, Japan:

1830hp electric passenger locomotive

500hp 2-coch electric train. Tobu Railway, Japan

240hp electric motor coach. Ome Railway, Japan

Motor generator set

Combined battery & trolley locomotive incl cab photo

Nagoya Railway, Japan – motor coaches with EE motors & control equipment

“Japan” sub-folder:

Express passenger train of JNR EF58 locomotive

Met-Vick Japan 1925 B-B locomotive

EE Co 1220hp electric freight locomotive

1830hp electric passenger locomotive No 8000

800hp electric freight locomotive. Chichibu Railway, Japan

Chinese Engineering locomotive

Loco “KMA”, motor bogie ( 2 motors), cab and controller photos