North Western State - Kalabash-Bannu line 2-8-2 Locomotives in India

Class 13 (Locobase 20346)

Data from "2-8-2 Goods Locomotives for the North Western State Ry of India, Trans-Indus Section, Kalabash-Bannu Line", Locomotive Magazine, Volume XX [ 20] (15 April 1914), pp. 108-110; and "Narrow Gauge Goods Locomotive, Indian State Rys", Locomotive Magazine, Volume XXIII [23] (17 February 1917), p. 23. Works numbers were 20952-20955 in 1915.

Tackling the Kalabash-Bannu line beginning at the broad-gauge station at Mari on the east bank of the Indus inevitably meant heavy duty. The consulting engineering firm Rendel, Palmer & Tritton worked with North British and came up with a wood-burning Mikado.

Its relatively broad wood-burning grate and Belpaire firebox indicated a trailing axle whose 36" diameter wheels were inside a widened section of the engine frame that was attached to a steel transverse casting ahead of the firebox.. The leading truck rode under a long deck ahead of the smokebox. Both axles had boxes fixed to long members leading to a central pivot.

The wood fuel implies a relatively large grate and the tender held 2 1/2 tons (2,540 kg) of it.