Ceylon Government Railway 4-6-0T Locomotives in Ceylon

Class B2 (Locobase 20924)

Data from "Passenger Engine and Tender for the Ceylon Government Railway", Vulcan Foundry Locomotive Catalogue, No. 35, found on Flicker's Historical Locomotive Images website at [], last accessed 3 Agust 2021. 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. .(Many thanks to Jorge Cerezo Toledo for his 26 June 2021 email containing links to several sites including the Vulcan Catalogue referred to above.) Vulcan works numbers were 3547, 3548, 3552 - 3555 in 1922 and 3858-3862, 3932-3941 in 1925. Kitson supplied 3, Robert Stephenson & Company 11 (works numbers were 3787-3797 in 1920).

These broad gauge Ten-wheelers were part of the long run of B-type locomotives also known as Nanu Oya. Eng. Peeligama notes that the 945 Imp gal of water (1,134 US gallons,4,292 litres) in the side tanks of these B2s tank-tender language were used strictly to add adhesive weight. All the water for the boiler was drawn from the tender.

Class B3 (Locobase 21004)

Data from "Ceylon Government Railways Type 4.6.0", Locomotives Constructed by Kitson & Co,. Ltd (Leeds: n.d.).

These were clearly based on the B4 saturated-steam Ten-wheelers (Locobase 16066) delivered two years earlier. Like the B4, these engines increased their adhesion by carrying water in side tanks. Boiler water came solely from the tender.

Class B4 (Locobase 16066)

Data from "Ceylon Government Railways", The Locomotive, Volume 17 (15 April 1911), p. 74. See also 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. The first four locomotives came from Neilson & Sons in 1893, the last five from Kitsons in 1911-1912.

These Ten-wheelers featured an unusual combination of side tanks carrying 900 Imperial gallons (1,080 US gallons; 4,088 litres) and trailing a six-wheel tender with a capacity of 1,800 Imp gal (2,160 US gallons; 8,176 litres). Eng Peeligama explains that the water in the side tanks only provided more adhesive weight. Only the tender fed the boiler.