Surviving Steam Rollers (and other Road Engines) in India

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Derek Rayner has a passion for steam rollers and, in fact, anything powered by steam. He has compiled the following list of known surviving steam rollers in India and would very much welcome additions (preferably with photographs). Please send me an email at the address at the foot of the page and I will forward it to him immediately. Actually that request extends to any steam roller (or steam road engine) not shown on these pages.

This list was last amended on 21st February 2018 with identification and a picture of the Aveling & Porter roller in Jhansi, previously 19th April 2017 with a Marshall portable at Howrah, 17th March 2017 with two rollers in Madhya Pradesh, 26th January 2016 with entry 27, previously on 11th October 2015 with the relocation of entry 14.

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Steam Rollers

		Place	State	Location	Maker	Size /Type	Works No.	Date	Customer
1		Kolkata	West Bengal	Lake Park	Aveling-Barford	8ton single - T type	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
2		Kolkata	West Bengal	Birla Technical Museum	Garrett	8ton single	27251	13-Oct-1908	Burn & Co, Calcutta
3		Kolkata	West Bengal	Birla Technical Museum	Marshall	10ton single	78863	26-Feb-1925	J&H Marshall & Partners, Calcutta
4		Kolkata	West Bengal	Howrah Railway Museum	Garrett	9ton single	28417	31-Aug-1910	Burn & Co, Calcutta
5		Siliguri	West Bengal	PWD Main Offices (5)	Aveling & Porter	10ton single	7756	17-Feb-1912	Barnes Bros, Trowbridge
6		Siliguri	West Bengal	PWD Bungalow	Aveling-Barford	6ton single - R type	AG 753	31-Jan-1947	ISD, Calcutta (6)
7		Malbazar	West Bengal	PWD Bungalow	Aveling & Porter	10ton single	3569	17-Jul-1895	A & H Rutty, Bromley by Bow
8		Coochbehar	West Bengal	PWD Main Offices	Marshall	10ton single	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
9		Jalpaiguri	West Bengal	PWD Depot	Fowler	8ton single	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
10		Burdwan (10a)	West Bengal	nr Railway Station	Garrett	10ton single	U/I	pre-1905/6	Burn & Co, Calcutta (10b)
11		Dehradun	Uttarakhand	Main street nr clock tower	Fowler	14ton comp - D5 type	16359	22-Feb-1927	John Fowler, Bombay Click here for more pictures from Harry Liddle
12		Mhow	Madhya Pradesh	Main street	Aveling & Porter	12ton pv single - G type	10442	30-Oct-1922	J Birch & Co Ltd, London
13		Navsari	Gujarat	nr Railway Station	Aveling & Porter	8ton single	7192	17-Oct-1910	J Birch & Co Ltd, London Wall
14		Bandra Terminus	Mumbai	Railway Station	Tata-Marshall	8-10ton single	126	(14) 14-12-1948	ISD, formerly at Valsad (picture left) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Railway_zone  Picture
15		Ferozepur Cantt	Punjab	PWD Depot (former location)	Aveling & Porter	6ton single (i/flywheel)	6465	29-Feb-1908	India Office, Karachi
15a		Ferozepur Cantt	Punjab	DRM's office near Railway Station (new location)	Aveling & Porter	6ton single (i/flywheel)	6465	29-Feb-1908	India Office, Karachi
16		Gorakphur	Uttar Pradesh	Railway Museum	Aveling-Barford				Click here for more pictures from Harry Liddle.
17		Dungarpur	Rajasthan	Dungarpur Mews Transport Museum	Marshall	S-type single cylinder	82745	1927	http://udaibilaspalace.com
18		Monghyr (18)	Bihar	On road from town centre to the ghats, just beyond the gate through the walls, on the left.	Aveling-Barford	6ton (?) single - R type	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
19		Rewari	Haryana	Railway Museum	Fowler	10ton DNA single	16935	1926	JF, Bombay
20.		Nagpur	Maharashtra	PWD Office Sankul, Nagpur North side of Civil Line Road	Fowler	10 ton DN1 compound	16354	1924	JF, Bombay
21		Chandrapur	Maharashtra	?	Ruston & Hornsby			Not known
51		Mettupalayam	Tamil Nadu	Park between the bus and railway stations	Marshall	6 ton compound S type	85076	1928	Incomplete (Thanks also to Michael Stokes for finding this one) Despatched from Gainsborough to Marshall's Madras office on 10th October 1929 (thanks to Robert Crawford for additional information.)
52		Moradabad	Uttar Pradesh	Inspector of Works, Railway Area	Tata Marshall			1949
53		Moradabad	Uttar Pradesh	Rajghat Narora	Aveling-Barford				"Remote station on Moradabad -Chandausi -Aligarh section'
54		Salem	Tamil Nadu	Sri Krishna Rajendra Chattiram, corporation office in Arisipalayam	Fowler				Incomplete Story in the Hindu, 27th April 2015
55		Satpura	Madhya Pradesh	Satpura Tiger Reserve	Tata Marshall				Pictures on Panoramio
56		Seoni	Madhya Pradesh	Opposite Circuit House	Marshall				Pictures on Panoramio
57		Jhansi	Uttar Pradesh	In Laxmi Bai Park near the Fort	Aveling & Porter		6548	1908	Picture on Alamy

Notes:

5 - PWD - Public Works Department
6 - India Stores Department
10a - Also known as Bhardamann
10b - Assumed from Garrett's records
14 - Date of Acceptance
18 - Also known as Munger.

Other Miscellaneous Road Engines

		Place	State	Location	Maker	Size /Type	Works No.	Date	Customer
22.		near Ajmer	Rajasthan	See note below	Marshall		77282	1924
23		Chennai	Tamil Nadu	Railway Museum	Fowler	AA7 Class Ploughing	15613	1921
24		Mumbai	Maharashtra	Nehru Science Museum	Sentinel	'Super' model	6954
25		near Chandigarh	Punjab	Pinjore Gardens, 10 miles north	Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies				Click for more pictures
26		Rajahmundry	Andra Pradesh	Cotton Museum, Dowleswaram	(Ruston and Hornsby?)				Click for picture
27		Sukna (Mohurgong)	West Bengal	See note below.	Ransomes, Head and Jefferies		5700	ca 1884
28		Bangalore	Karnataka	Visvesvarya Museum	Sentinel (Alley & MacLellan)	'Standard' model	1496	1917	Click for first picture
29		Kolkata	West Bengal	Howrah Railway Museum	Marshall				Portable

22. In a small holding near a main road. A portable together with two 'locomotive style' boilers probably used to power a stationary engine.
23. This engine was confirmed as No 15613 during a visit in January 2013. Fowler AA7 ploughing engine No 15613, fitted with double speed ploughing gear and a 600 yard drum was paired with 15612 and despatched from Fowlers at Leeds on 19th September 1921, against an order (number 1451) from John Fowler, Bombay. They were delivered for a contract for Sarda [Sharda] Canals, India. In 1980, 15613 from this pair was noted by a visitor to the Railway Works at Perambur, Madras.
24. Despatched from Shrewsbury in April 1927. It was exported to agents William Jacks & Co and both their plates and the works plates are still on the wagon's cab. It was owned by Mazagon Docks Ltd and said to have been used to haul ships into a dry dock there.
25. Portable engine.
27. This engine may well be the one on a tea plantation close to Sukna on the DHR, first station out of Siliguri going north and adjacent to and visible from the Hill Cart Road.
28. It was owned by Mazagon Docks Ltd

Engines for which further information and pictures would be appreciated!

Notes:

a. Steam roller, for sale, see http://www.r-r-a.org.uk/, October 2010 and http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vintage-cars-classics-india/26996-classics-available-purchase-155.html
b. Portable engine
c. 1924 Jamshedpur, Tata, at TISCO in 1985 and then to R. C. Agarwal, Calcutta. No recent reports...
d. It was owned by Mazagon Docks Ltd, last reported in 'Mumbai City Museum', 1962