This locomotive was built by Dübs & Co in Glasgow in 1891 as works no 2787 for the Nizam State Railway.
Nizam’s Guaranteed State Railway (NGSR) was a railway company that operated in India from 1879 until 1950. It was owned by the Nizams of Hyderabad State, and its full name was His Exalted Highness, The Nizam’s Guaranteed State Railway. The company began with a line built privately by the HEH, the Nizam, which was owned and operated by the company under a guarantee from the Hyderabad State, much to the dismay of the British authorities. Capital for the line was raised by issuing redeemable mortgage debentures. The Nizam’s railway was eventually consolidated with the Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway (HGVR). In 1951, both the NGSR and the HGVR were nationalised and merged into Indian Railways.
The locomotive is now preserved at the National Railway Museum at Chanakyapuri, New Delhi where it has been sectioned as a teaching tool.
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