Bombay, Baroda & Central India 2-8-2 Locomotives in India

Class unknown (Locobase 20998)

Data from "New Express and Freight Locomotives, Bombay, Baroda & Central India", Railway Engineer, Volume 45, No 5 (May 1924), 168-179, 178. Works numbers were 5368-5369 in 1924.

Kitson turned out four big engines for the BB&CI, a pair of Pacifics (Locobase ) and this pair of Mikados. RE's report noted that a key goal was the "duplication of as many parts as possible" which the consultng engineers and the builder carried out "effectively" in "the boiler and its fittings, grate bars and ashpan, cab, cylinders valve motion, pistons and rods, crossheads and connecting rods, coupled wheel axlebox and hornblocks, springs and gear, and the trailing radial truck." Or to put it another way, only the driver diameters and the leading truck designs were different.

In addition to the large grate, the firebox featured a combustion chamber and 24 sq ft (2.23 sq m) of arch tubes. Steam was admitted to the cylinders through relatively large 11" (279 mm) piston valves. The trailing truck was a radial design with Cartazzi axleboxes linked through compensating beams with the trailing coupled axle's springs." The tenders were also identical save the coal capacity which was lower in the 2-8-2s by 1 1/2 long tons.

Or to put it another way, only the driver diameters and the leading truck designs were different. Visually, the two resembled each other, but the Mikado's smaller drivers left a gap between the running board and the boiler.