The Indian locomotive class WU was a class of steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in India. The four members of the class were built by

Vulcan Foundry The Vulcan Foundry Limited was an English locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now Merseyside). History The Vulcan Foundry opened in 1832, as Charles Tayleur and Company to produce girders for bridges, switches, crossin ...

in Newton-le-Willows,

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, England, to an order placed by the

East Indian Railway The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Barod ...

(EIR) in 1940. They were completed in 1943. Proposals were later made for additional members of the class WU to be built. However, the class lacked the ability to cope with post-

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

traffic, and therefore the proposals were never realised. Marshall 2009, p. 88.

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* * * * {{Broad gauge locomotives of India , state=collapsed Railway locomotives introduced in 1943 WU Vulcan Foundry locomotives 2-4-2T locomotives 5 ft 6 in gauge locomotives Scrapped locomotives

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