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Rishra

Rishra is an Tier Two Industrial Town and has a municipality in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.-Geography:...

 (works number 2007) was built in 1921 by Baguley Cars Ltd. It was repatriated from its Indian resting place at a water works in Kolkata (Calcutta) by Michael Satow, the founder of the Indian Railways Museum in New Delhi.

It is normally based at the Leighton Buzzard Railway. She is the only surviving Baguley steam loco, and one of only 31 built; the works number sequence for steam locos started at 2000.

She is one of only two preserved locomotives fitted with Baguley valve gear

Baguley valve gear

The Baguley valve gear is a type of steam engine valve gear invented by Mr E. E. Baguley the draftsman of the W.G. Bagnall company of locomotive manufacturers. It was patented in 1893....

, similar to the Bagnall-Price gear which was adopted by Bagnall after Ernest E. Baguley

Ernest E. Baguley

-Employment:Baguley served an apprenticeship with R & W Hawthorn Leslie, initially at their Tyneside shipyard and later at their Forth Bank, Newcastle, locomotive works. In 1890 he moved to Stafford and became Chief Draughtsman for W G Bagnall Ltd...

 left that firm.

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