Indian locomotive class WG

The Indian Railways WG class was a type of broad gauge 2-8-2 goods locomotive introduced in the 1950s. The article says 2,450 were built between 1950 and 1970, which made it the most numerous class of mainline locomotive in India until the WDM-2 diesel arrived. The design used the same boiler, motion, springs, tender bogies and rear truck as the 4-6-2 WP passenger class. The first hundred came from North British and its subcontractor Vulcan Foundry, with others from European and Japanese builders, and the works at Chittaranjan began by assembling imported parts, reached 70 percent domestic content by 1953 and met the whole domestic need by 1956. Production ended in 1970 with the final unit named Antim Sitara, the Last Star.