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Rishra (works number 2007) was built in 1921 by Baguley Cars Ltd. Following a working life in India it is now preserved at the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, Bedfordshire, England.
It is the one of only 31 Baguley steam locomotives built. [1]
Baguley Cars Ltd took the order on 7 July 1919 for their works number 2007 2 ft (610 mm) 0-4-0 T 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.[ citation needed ]
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