Rishra (locomotive)

Following a working life in India it is now preserved at the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, Bedfordshire, England.

[1] Baguley Cars Ltd took the order on 7 July 1919 for their works number 2007 2 ft (610 mm) 0-4-0T locomotive and delivered in on 28 November 1921 to Light Railways Ltd.[1] The locomotive was used by the Calcutta Corporation for shunting coal wagons at a water pumping station in Barrackpore, India.

[2] Left abandoned in undergrowth, it was rescued in 1963 by Michael Satow[a], a senior executive of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), who had the locomotive restored at the Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company, Rishra, Kolkata (Calcutta).

[2][b] It was repatriated to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in England by Satow in 1971.

[2] It is one of only four preserved locomotives fitted with Baguley valve gear, similar to the Bagnall-Price gear which was adopted by Bagnall after Ernest E. Baguley left that firm.