C Shivakumar
Chennai:
Elegies may have been written about world’s oldest steam
locomotive Fairy Queen after some of its famed components were stolen last year
but engineers in Perambur Loco Works have not given up hope as they are
resurrecting the famed locomotive.
A proud chief workshop manager of Loco Works M A Inbarasu
says Fairy Queen will be brought back to life in Chennai and we are working to
set right the boiler.
The theft of 32 valuable components of Fairy Queen was
reported in April last year. The locomotive was certified as the oldest
operational locomotive by Guiness Book of Records after Rajasthan government
brought it into use in 2004.
“The work on resurrection of EIR 22 rechristened as Fairy
Queen will begin soon as the locomotive is in Perambur Loco Works. The boiler, which
is found riddled with holes has to be set right. We will put it into real shape
to set it chugging again,” said Inbarasu while highlighting the faith railways
has on Perambur Loco Works.
The Fairy Queen was built in England in 1855 and was shipped
to Kolkata and given the number 22 by The East Indian Railway. It was later
consigned to line construction duty in Bihar, where it served until 1909.
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