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WCP Series Part-II

The only WCP2 was produced in 1938, eight years after production of the WCP1 had ceased. It was then classified EA/2 by GIPR and hence WCP2 by IR. It was numbered #4025 by the GIPR and later #20024 by IR. There is a belief that it was this #20024 that hauled the Deccan Queen on its first run in 1930, which is wrong. It was the then EA/1 #4006 (Sir Roger Lumley, above), later renumbered #20004 by IR that did those honors. #20024 (#4025) was not even produced when the Deccan Queen started running. It is now on display (only the shell) at the Nehru Center of Science in New Delhi. This WCP 2 was made in the year of 1938 and had a top rated speed of 120 kmph.

 
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