Vintage steam engine : Fairy Queen

The vintage broad gauge (1676 mm) steam engine, "Fairy Queen" , rushes past Shahbad Mohammadpur station en route to Delhi Cantonment station, from Alwar, hauling the special tourist train, Fairy Queen Express, at 6.18 PM on Sunday Feb. 24, 2008.

This vintage engine,# EIR-22, was built in 1855 at Leeds, UK, by Kitson Thompson & Hewitson. It was the first exhibit at the National Railway Museum in New Delhi in 1971; brought in on its own steam! It runs on broad-gauge tracks (width 5'6"), and has a wheel arrangement of 2-2-2TWT.

Resurrected from its hibernation in the Museum after a major overhaul at the Perambur Loco Works near Madras, it hauls a 2-coach tourist special every winter season between Delhi Cantonment to Alwar and back.

This locomotive also took part in the Steam locomotive Parade held in New Delhi in Feb. 2007 - the video of this parade is also on this site.

The track on which the train is running was a metre gauge (1000 mm) line till it was closed for conversion on Nov. 30, 2005, marking the end of the 130 year old historic Delhi Jn - Rewari Meter gauge tracks.

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[3801Catcher]

I drive a NSWGR Z12 that is 130 years old....It is restricted to 150t loads though.

[MrCagivaman]

150 years old. Bloody marvelous !!!!!!!!!!

[b43xoit]

The little engine that hauled ass.

[resist4resist]

Much faster than most of the diesel/electric hauled "superfast" trains on IR.

[dylanbobby1]

That old poop can run that fast?

[Sameer7678]

nice capture!!!