Egyptian State Railways 545 class

The Egyptian State Railways 545 class was a type of standard gauge mixed traffic steam locomotive with a 2-6-0 wheel arrangement, used by Egyptian State Railways, later called Egyptian Republic Railways and now Egyptian National Railways. Between 1920 and 1938 various builders supplied the railway with 180 tender locomotives of this wheel arrangement, and 80 of them belonged to the 545 class. The first order of 58 was built in Britain in 1928, 40 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow and 20 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle upon Tyne, and Borsig of Berlin supplied another 20 to the same design in 1931. Four members were rebuilt with Caprotti valve gear in 1939. During the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai five members were captured on the former Palestine Railways main line, and all standard gauge steam locomotives in Egypt had been withdrawn by 1963.