Eastern Bengal 4-4-0 Locomotives in India

Class 323 (Locobase 20419)

Data from "4-4-0 Express Locomotive, Eastern Bengal State Ry," The Locomotive Magazine, Volume XXI [21] (15 December 1915), p. 267.

The Eastern Bengal based its general design of this Eight-wheeled express engine on the specifications prepared for standard locomotives by the Engineering Standards Committee. Its boiler specs are identical to the 2-6-4T supplied to the EBR earlier in the year (Locobase 20418), including the superheater and Belpaire firebox. But its taller drivers bespoke the faster schedules these locomotives were expected to reach.

The first four locomotives were equipped with Schmidt superheaters, the latter two used the Robinson variant.

Class BESA/SP (Locobase 4256)

Data from"4-4-0- Express Locomotive Eastern Bengal State Railway," Locomotive Magazine, Volume 18 (15 January 1912), p.22. See also [] (first accessed 30 June 2003, last accessed 23 January 2016).

This was a variant of the smaller of the two Standard Passenger (SP) engines which had all inside motion that was, like the Belpaire boiler, identical to that of the British Engineering Standards Association SG (Standard Goods) six-coupled freight engine. (The same two boiler designs were used in the 2-6-4T PT design.)

See the HP 4-6-0 for full description of the BESA intention and varying views of its utility.