Ceylon Government Railway 4-6-0 Locomotives in Ceylon

Class B1 (Locobase 7506)

Data from 1946 Beyer, Peacock catalogue hosted on Martyn Bane's website at [] (accessed 21 May 2006). See also Eng. Udaya Peeligama, "A Concise History Of Motive Power Development On Sri Lankan Railways", presented on the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka-New South Wales Chapter website at [], posted 7 September 2018, last accessed 3 August 2021. Beyer, Peacock works numbers were 6391-6399 in 1927, 6467-6480 in 1928, and 6678-6679 in 1930. Armstrong Whitworth (12) and Robert Stephenson & Company (12) completed this large class.

Batch #156 inaugurated Beyer, Peacock Ten-wheeler deliveries to the CGR. Quite small for the broad-gauge, these had low-drivers and the familiar Belpaire firebox. Many of which were named after British Governors of Ceylon,

Eng Peeligama describes this "majestic" design as the" culmination in the ultimate development of the NOA Classes ." These engines "epresented the finest and highly versatile steam locomotive type on the island. The most handsome of all steam Classes, they were the workhorses of the system hauling the fast expresses and heaviest goods trains in the steam era."