The KUR EC5 class was a class of gauge

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s built during the latter stages of World War II by Beyer, Peacock & Co. in Gorton, Manchester, England, for the War Department of the United Kingdom. The two members of the class entered service on the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1945. They were part of a batch of 20 locomotives, the rest of which were sent to either India or Burma. Kenya Uganda Railway class EC5

The following year, 1946, four locomotives from that batch were acquired by the

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(TR) from Burma. They entered service on the TR as the TR GB class. In 1949, upon the merger of the KUR and the TR to form the

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(EAR), the EC5 and GB classes were combined as the EAR 55 class. In 1952, the EAR acquired five more of the War Department batch of 20 from Burma, where they had been Burma Railways class GD; these five locomotives were then added to the EAR 55 class, bringing the total number of that class to 11 units.

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The builders and fleet numbers of each member of the EAR 55 class were as follows:

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