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Between 1912 and 1914 two types of locomotive were purchased from Burma Railways. These were originally designed for the Indian State Railways, of which Burma was then part.

In 1871 Sharp Stewart were asked to build ten 0-4-0 tender locomotives and ten 0-4-2 tender locomotives for comparison trials. The 0-4-0's were classified D and delivered in 1873 while the 0-4-2's were classified E and delivered the following year. The 6½ ton axle load of the 0-4-0 was deemed too heavy, the line limit then being 6 tons, so subsequent orders were for class E which were built by Dübs, Neilson and Vulcan Foundry. They had 3' driving wheels and 11½" x 17" cylinders, and a total of 143 were built. 24 went to Burma including a batch of 20 built by Vulcan Foundry in 1876 with larger cabs and 4-wheel tenders. At least some of the Dübs locomotives had 6-wheel tenders. Five of the Vulcan Foundry engines were sold to the FMSR in 1912 with five more the following year. One of these was from a later batch built in 1877. These were then classified as 'Burma E' by the FMSR, allocated to the newly-formed Construction Department and numbered CD1 to CD10. One was sold to Malayan Collieries in 1915 and another was withdrawn in 1917, the remainder surviving until 1921 (1) and 1922 (7).

Works photograph of Vulcan Foundry 773 as ISR E13 as sold to India State Railways. When Burma became a separate country in 1885 it retained the ISR number as did the majority of locomotives

Maker	W. No	Date	Owner	Number	Date	Disposal	Date	Notes
Vulcan Foundry	783	1877	FMSR CD	CD1	1912	Scrapped	3/1921	Ex BR E23
Vulcan Foundry	788	1878	FMSR CD	CD2	1912	Scrapped	1922	Ex BR E28
Vulcan Foundry	779	1877	FMSR CD	CD3	1912	Scrapped	4/1917	Ex BR E19
Vulcan Foundry	773	1877	FMSR CD	CD4	1912	Scrapped	1922	Ex BR E13
Vulcan Foundry	776	1877	FMSR CD	CD5	1912	Scrapped	4/1922	Ex BR E16
Vulcan Foundry	775	1877	FMSR CD	CD6	1913	Scrapped	1922	Ex BR E15
Vulcan Foundry	772	1877	FMSR CD	CD7	1913	Scrapped	6/1922	Ex BR E12
Vulcan Foundry	816	1878	FMSR CD	CD8	1913	Scrapped	1922	Ex BR E6
Vulcan Foundry	784	1877	FMSR CD	CD9	1913	Scrapped	1/1922	Ex BR E24
Vulcan Foundry	781	1877	FMSR CD	CD10	1913	Sold	1915	Ex BR E21. Sold to Malayan Collieries

No less than 305 4-4-0's with 4' 5" driving wheels and 14" x 20" cylinders were built between 1883 and 1943 by a number of builders, including Dübs, Neilson and Vulcan Foundry. Eighteen of these went to Burma, 3 from Dübs and 15 from Neilson, of which thirteen were sold to FMSR in 1913 and 1914, including one Dübs example. Of these, four went to the Construction Department as CD12 to CD15 while the remainder became FMSR 153 to 161. These latter engines worked the lightly laid branches such as the line to Port Dickson (Sungei Ujong Railway). In 1918-19 numbers 156 to 158 were loaned to the RSR (Siam) to serve on the final building phase of the Southern Railway link with the FMSR. Two of the Construction Department engines succumbed in 1919 while the other two went in 1926 and 1928. All the FMSR examples were withdrawn between 1924 and 1926.

Works photograph of Neilson 3569 as ISR O class number 68. Sold to FMSR Construction Department and numbered CD15, this was used in the construction of the East Coast line.

Maker	W. No	Date	Owner	Number	Date	Disposal	Date	Notes
Neilson	3558	1887	FMSR	153	1913	Scrapped	1924	Ex BR 62
Neilson	3573	1887	FMSR	154	1913	Scrapped	1925	Ex BR 72
Neilson	3578	1887	FMSR	155	1913	Scrapped	1924	Ex BR 76
Neilson	3568	1887	FMSR	156	1913	Scrapped	1926	Ex BR 67
Neilson	3556	1887	FMSR	157	1914	Scrapped	1924	Ex BR 60
Dubs	1815	1884	FMSR	158	1914	Scrapped	1924	Ex BR 47
Neilson	3577	1887	FMSR	159	1914	Scrapped	1924	Ex BR 75
Neilson	3576	1887	FMSR	160	1914	Scrapped	1926	Ex BR 74
Neilson	3557	1887	FMSR	161	1914	Scrapped	1924	Ex BR 61
Neilson	3574	1887	FMSR CD	CD12	1913	Scrapped	1928	Ex BR 73
Neilson	3571	1887	FMSR CD	CD13	1913	Scrapped	04/1919	Ex BR 70
Neilson	3555	1887	FMSR CD	CD14	1913	Scrapped	02/1919	Ex BR 59
Neilson	3569	1887	FMSR CD	CD15	1913	Scrapped	12/1926	Ex BR 68

The photographs on this page are credited to the Continental Railway Circle and came from the Hughes Collection which has since been transferred to the National Railway Museum.

Unclassified	A & B classes	A² class	C¹ class
Burma E and O	C² class	D class	E class
F class	G class	H class	I class
J class	K¹ class	K² class	L class
M class	O class	P class	Mallet
Q class	R class	S class	T class
WWII	Sentinel	WD class