The Indian locomotive class XC was a class of heavy axle load "Pacific" type

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India and Pakistan. Marshall 2009, pp. 36, 40, 47–48, 51–54. 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

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in 1947, a total of 22 members of the class went to Pakistan. The other 50 remained in India.

Preservation

None of the XC's have survived into preservation.

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* – features an image of a class XC locomotive on the Kurrong Bridge * – features an image of a class XC locomotive at

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Preservation

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