The Indian locomotive class WT was a class of heavy
tank locomotive
A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines also have bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a tender-tank locom ...
s used on
broad gauge lines in India from 1960.
[ Hughes 1976, p. 31.][ Marshall 2009, pp. 90, 145–146.] These locomotives were built to operate local trains in Eastern Railways zone on Howrah to Burdwan main line.
The thirty members of the WT class were designed in India,
[ Marshall 2009, p. 90.] and built by
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) is an electric locomotive manufacturer based in India. The works are located at Chittaranjan in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of West Bengal, with an ancillary unit in Dankuni. The main unit is 32 km fr ...
,
Chittaranjan
Chittaranjan is a census town in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is popularly known for the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works.
It was recently featured i ...
, in
Burdwan District,
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
, India. The first WT class locomotive rolled out of
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) is an electric locomotive manufacturer based in India. The works are located at Chittaranjan in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of West Bengal, with an ancillary unit in Dankuni. The main unit is 32 km fr ...
in March of 1959 and interestingly was also named Chittaranjan.
Class table
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Indian Railways
Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tota ...
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Locomotives of India
The Indian Railways primarily operates fleet of electric and diesel locomotives, along with several compressed natural gas (CNG) locomotives. Steam locomotives are operated on a few World Heritage Sites and also run occasionally as heritag ...
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Rail transport in India
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{{Broad gauge locomotives of India , state=collapsed
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1960
WT
2-8-4T locomotives
5 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Scrapped locomotives