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Independence Day 2022: 167-year-old steam engine to run on August 15

August 15, 2022 6:34 am

Manufactured in England in 1855 by Kitson, Thompson and Hewitson, EIR-21 was shipped to British India.

Railway engineer, other officials sell off vintage steam engine as scrap in Bihar

December 26, 2021 1:17 pm

7 booked in the shocking case; engineer, helper suspended; Samastipur DRM calls sale of old steam locomotive a ‘breach of trust’ by railway insiders

After two decades, steam engine train’s commercial run on Kangra Valley line

November 17, 2018 10:26 am

Railways is trying to bring back the steam engines into service for special tourist runs like this.

Neral-Matheran steam engine yet to begin ‘return’ journey

April 29, 2014 1:20 am

‘adverse’ conditions at hill station and a recent fuel conversion have limited vintage engine to trial runs.

Steam locomotive to run in Mumbai

February 06, 2014 4:21 pm

Interative models of the growth of suburban railways will also be put up at the exhibition.

Steam engine trial runs begin

June 10, 2013 2:25 am

Trial runs of steam engine B-794 started recently.

Now,world's smallest steam engine that actually works

December 13, 2011 3:02 pm

This means that there is nothing,in principle,to prevent the construction of highly efficient,small heat engines.

Chaiyya Chaiyya train loses steam

November 05, 2009 3:52 am

The Nilgiris Mountain Railway (NMR) train of Chaiyya Chaiyya fame will soon cease to chug as the good old steam engine is set to give way to diesel locomotives....

Steam engine chugs down memory lane

August 17, 2009 5:02 am

For Eastern Railways it was an occasion to relive the past as a steam engine travelled from Howrah to Bandel,commemorating its maiden when the first passenger train had left the Howrah station 155 years ago.