164-years old steam engine to operate tomorrow - the public can travel!
Posted on: 13/Dec/2019 1:04:12 PM
As a sort of commemoration, the 164-years’ old steam engine is set to be operated tomorrow in the section Chennai Egmore-Kodambakkam. The public can pay and travel in this service for a special occasion!
This steam engine, ‘EIR21’, is the oldest in the country! It has 132 horsepower capacity! It was manufactured in the year 1855! It performed for the Indian Railway for 55 years and was retired in the year 1909 and subsequently shifted and placed in the Jamalpur Railway Museum! It was kept there for 101 years and then taken to Chennai for renovation. A coach was attached to this engine and just for the public display; this engine is operated once or twice a year.
Thousands of public come to have a look at this old engine letting the old smoke and using the old horn reminding of the ‘good old golden days’!
The public is allowed to travel on this train only once or twice.
