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A class WP/1 steam locomotive with its bullet-shaped streamlined front, in silver and red, with the date 1963, on a ₹1 stamp.
The WP/1 Steam Locomotive
India Post issued four stamps on 15 May 1976 on Indian locomotives, from the engines of the first train of 1853 to the diesels of the 1960s. India’s first passenger train ran from Bombay to Thana on 16 April 1853; Chittaranjan began building steam locomotives in 1950, and the Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi its first diesels in 1964. The WP, a 4-6-2 “Pacific” for broad gauge express trains, was the standard express engine after the Second World War: sixteen prototypes came from the United States in 1947, and Chittaranjan built the WP/1 from 1963.
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