Ceylon Government Railway E1

The Ceylon Government Railway E1 was a class of steam tank locomotive built for and run by the national railway of British Ceylon, which later became Sri Lanka Railways. Twenty locomotives were produced in all, grouped into five subclasses lettered A to E, and the class was first known as the SHUNT Class until the railway reclassified its stock in 1937. As the early name suggests, the engines were used mainly for shunting. They were first built with a 0-6-0 wheel arrangement, but the railway later fitted all of them except the E1E subclass with a pony axle, turning them into 0-6-2 tank engines. Only one engine survives: locomotive number 93, built in 1898, is kept in the national collection at the National Railway Museum in Kadugannawa and is the oldest surviving locomotive of the Ceylon Government Railway.