Streamlined steam loco
A postcard found by Rainer Fuchs which shows one of the streamlined pacific steam locomotives built for Iraq by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns in 1940. Locos 501 Baghdad, 502 El Mosul and 503 El Basrah entered service in 1941, but 504 Kirkuk didn’t make it and is now on the seabed somewhere…
There is a high-resolution works photo of one of the 4-6-2 locos on this Vulcan Foundary website. Comparing the shapes of the letters on the nameplate with written versions of the four possible names, and the photo in Hugh Hughes’s book Middle East Railways, I think both photos show No.502 El Mosul, but I’ll defer to any Arabic speakers on the matter!
The Vulcan Foundary website has scans of a magazine article describing 10 oil-fired metre-gauge 2-8-2 locos built for Iraq. Plus a photo.
December 29th, 2007 at 23:22
Hello, i would like to built this locomotiv as toy train loco, gauge O. with Marklin system electric motor, in a exclusiv serie, 8 samples, numbered, signed. I would like to know the original finishing colors.
Thank you, greeting from Hungary, Budapest, Emil Valker
January 14th, 2008 at 23:37
The book “Middle East Railways” by Hugh Hughes refers to one of the locos in its “original green livery”. The Restoration & Archiving trust has a
colour photo of 1501 Baghdad from 1967.
January 16th, 2008 at 20:11
[...] This is the Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns loco which was to have been Iraqi railways PC class number 504 Kirkuk, similar to this one. [...]
March 1st, 2008 at 11:36
May I draw your attention to the following recent addition to the Vulcan Foundry site with regard to the iraq Y class 2-8-2.
http://www.enuii.org/vulcan_foundry/photographs/locomotives/Publicity/Iraqi%20State%20Railways.pdf
Linked from near the top of the loco list page at:-
http://www.enuii.org/vulcan_foundry/photographs/pictorial_loco_list.htm
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:04
Dear Andrew,
I just came across your Blog site and read you are not sure which name the Streamlined Loco carries. I asked an Egyptian colleague and he told me it is the Mosul.
Greetings.
Herman
December 18th, 2008 at 2:40
I am also interested in building this one in 0 gauge. Would be interested in pictures, drawings etc.
Thanks