Saraya Sugar Mills 28/12/1993

Metre gauge steam locomotive, no. 8 “Tweed”, built by Sharp Stewart in 1873, at Saraya Sugar Mills, India, 28th December 1993.


2-of-15) Metre gauge no. 8 “Tweed”, built by Sharp Stewart of Manchester in 1873, inside the wall around the Saraya Sugar Mills, India, 28th December 1993.  Due to its age, this was a celebrity locomotive and was originally one of a small class built for the Tirhoot State Railway, which became part of the Bengal North Western Railway.   Some of these locomotives had been sold off into industrial use in the 1920s, like Tweed, which was out of use at this time,

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