WCM Series Part-III

Next loco is WCM 3. It was a unsuccessful locomotive. It was built by Hitachi. Auxiliaries by Westinghouse and North Boyce.Built in 1957-58, the smallest of the WCM series, also built for the 3kV Calcutta area and later converted to run on 1.5kV DC. Only three were built, nos. 20073-5, which are all now withdrawn. The WCM-3 units were characterized, apart from their dimunitive size, by separate light enclosures for the parking / marker lights (next to the headlight) and the tail lamps (just above the buffers). They are mostly used for freight. It had a max permissible speed of 120 kmph.