The Indian locomotive class XC was a class of heavy axle load "Pacific" type steam locomotives used on broad-gauge lines in British India, and then in post-partition India and Pakistan.Marshall 2009, pp. 36, 40, 47–48, 51–54.
The 72 members of the class were built in the United Kingdom between 1928 and 1931, some of them by William Beardmore & Co in Glasgow, Scotland, and the rest by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England.
Upon partition of India in 1947, a total of 22 members of the class went to Pakistan. The other 50 remained in India.
The last example, XC 22224, survived in service as the last British-built express 4-6-2 locomotive in regular work until 1981, when it was stored Burdwan, India. It was last sighted in December 1981 and was scrapped sometime afterward.
See also
History of rail transport in Pakistan Indian Railways Locomotives of India Pakistan Railways
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