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 rewritten in May 2019 to present the engines in a logical order, by manufacturer and works number where known. However, Aveling-Barford as successors to Aveling and Porter come after them, as do Tata Marshall after Marshall, also Ruston and Hornsby after Ruston Proctor. As of December 2023, no less than 43 steam rollers are listed which together with 10 miscellaneous road steam engines takes the total on this page over the 50 mark.

Latest addition are a Fowler roller in Darbanga (30th July 2024), identification of the Fowler roller reported in Patna (12th December 2023), the relocation of an Aveling Barford roller to Rewari, (22nd November 2023) Fowler roller and ploughing engine at Roorkee and a Marshall portable at at the Heritage Transport Museum at Taoru, Haryana (south of Delhi) (all three 12th May 2023), an Aveling & Porter roller at Danapur and an Aveling Barford roller at Tundla (2nd November 2022), an Aveling Barford roller in Sikar, Rajasthan (1st November 2022), a Fowler 'in Goa' (30th October 2022), a Tata Marshall at Dhanbad (picture added 11th November 2022), a Garrett roller in Rajnandgaon (11th August 2022), a portable engine in Bangalore, a Fowler roller reported in Indore, a Marshall roller restored in Mumbai, a picture of the Tata Marshall roller in the Satpura Tiger Reserve (17th April 2020), an Aveling & Porter and a Fowler at Burdwan, a Tata Marshall at the Heritage Transport Museum at Taoru, Haryana (south of Delhi) with a picture (12th September 2019) joining the Marshall roller reported earlier.

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Steam Rollers

		Place	State	Location	Maker	Size /Type	Works No.	Date	Customer / Notes
1		Malbazar	West Bengal	PWD Bungalow	Aveling & Porter	10 ton single	3569	17-Jul-1895	A & H Rutty, Bromley by Bow
2		Ferozepur Cantt	Punjab	PWD Depot (former location)	Aveling & Porter	6 ton single (i/flywheel)	6465	29-Feb-1908	India Office, Karachi
2a		Ferozepur Cantt	Punjab	DRM's office near Railway Station (new location)	Aveling & Porter	6 ton single (i/flywheel)	6465	29-Feb-1908	India Office, Karachi
3		Jhansi	Uttar Pradesh	In Laxmi Bai Park near the Fort	Aveling & Porter		6548	1908	Picture on Alamy
4		Navsari	Gujarat	nr Railway Station	Aveling & Porter	8 ton single	7192	17-Oct-1910	J Birch & Co Ltd, London Wall
5		Siliguri	West Bengal	PWD Main Offices (5)	Aveling & Porter	10 ton single	7756	17-Feb-1912	Barnes Bros, Trowbridge
6		Mhow	Madhya Pradesh	Main street	Aveling & Porter	12 ton pv single - G type	10442	30-Oct-1922	J Birch & Co Ltd, London
7		Burdwan	West Bengal		Aveling & Porter		U/I	Not Known
8		Danapur	Bihar	Station area	Aveling & Porter		U/I	Not Known	Picture
21		Kolkata	West Bengal	Lake Park	Aveling-Barford	8 ton single - T type	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
22		Siliguri	West Bengal	PWD Bungalow	Aveling-Barford	6 ton single - R type	AG 753	31-Jan-1947	India Stores Department, Calcutta
23		Gorakphur	Uttar Pradesh	Railway Museum	Aveling-Barford				Click here for more pictures from Harry Liddle.
24		Monghyr	Bihar	On road from town centre to the ghats, just beyond the gate through the walls, on the left.	Aveling-Barford	6 ton (?) single - R type	U/I	Not Known	Not Known. Monghyr is also known as Munger.
25.		Rewari	Haryana	Railway Museum	Aveling-Barford		AG 751	24-Jan-1947	Formerly at Rajghat Narora,  a remote station on Moradabad - Chandausi - Aligarh section in Uttar Pradesh
26.		Sikar	Rajasthan		Aveling-Barford	6 ton (?) single - R type	U/I	Not Known	Pre-restoration story. Picture 1 and picture 2.
27.		Tundla	Uttar Pradesh	Station area	Aveling-Barford		U/I	Not Known	Officially a North Central Railway Heritage Item. Use an image search for: Tundla Steam Roller
41		Nagpur	Maharashtra	PWD Office Sankul, Nagpur North side of Civil Line Road	Fowler	10 ton DN1 compound	16354	1924	John Fowler, Bombay
42		Dehradun	Uttarakhand	Main street near clock tower	Fowler	14 ton comp - D5 type	16359	22-Feb-1927	John Fowler, Bombay Click here for more pictures from Harry Liddle
50		Roorkee	Uttarakand		Fowler	9.5 ton T3B compound	16366	9-Apr-1930
51		Darbanga	Bihar		Fowler	8 ton T3B compound	16733	28-Jul-1926	John Fowler, Bombay
48		Patna	Bihar	Patna Collectorate	Fowler	T3B	16931	12-Nov-1926	John Fowler, Bombay Stored outside the former District Engineer's Office in an area being redeveloped. It may go to the Patna Museum.
43		Rewari	Haryana	Railway Museum	Fowler	10 ton DNA single	16935	1926	John Fowler, Bombay
44		Jalpaiguri	West Bengal	PWD Depot	Fowler	8 ton single	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
45		Salem	Tamil Nadu	Sri Krishna Rajendra Chattiram, corporation office in Arisipalayam	Fowler				Incomplete Story in the Hindu, 27th April 2015
46		Burdwan	West Bengal		Fowler				Burdwan now known as Bhardamann
47		Indore	Madhya Pradesh	Nehru Park	Fowler	T3	U/I	Not Known	A picture of it has appeared in a UK website, offering it 'for sale'. See also https://flickr.com/photos/gunjankarun/7453579604/.and https://www.helpmecovid.com/in/1149820_nehru-park (Link broken by September 2025) and https://in.worldorgs.com/catalog/indore/amusement-park/nehru-park.  Click here for another picture.
49			"Goa"		Fowler	DN	U/I		Incomplete details and picture Said to be 'in a field'. For a similar engine see https://www.steamscenes.org.uk/engines/fowler/road-roller/14126/
61		Kolkata	West Bengal	Birla Technical Museum	Garrett	8 ton single	27251	13-Oct-1908	Burn & Co, Calcutta
62		Rajnandgaon	Madhya Pradesh		Garrett		U/I		Details awaited See https://youtu.be/niwik25geL0
63		Kolkata	West Bengal	Howrah Railway Museum	Garrett	9 ton single	28417	31-Aug-1910	Burn & Co, Calcutta
64		Burdwan	West Bengal	near Railway Station	Garrett	10 ton single	U/I	pre-1905/6	Burn & Co, Calcutta Burdwan now known as Bhardamann
81		Taoru	Haryana	Heritage Transport Museum	Marshall		65909	ca 1914	http://www.heritagetransportmuseum.org/ under restoration in 2019
82		Kolkata	West Bengal	Birla Technical Museum	Marshall	10 ton single	78863	26-Feb-1925	J&H Marshall & Partners, Calcutta
83		Dungarpur	Rajasthan	Dungarpur Mews Transport Museum	Marshall	S-type single cylinder	82745	1927	http://udaibilaspalace.com
84		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.)
85		Coochbehar	West Bengal	PWD Main Offices	Marshall	10 ton single	U/I	Not Known	Not Known
86		Seoni	Madhya Pradesh	Opposite Circuit House	Marshall				Pictures were on Panoramio, see https://m.facebook.com/kshitijmishra.in/videos/579516699208786/?_rdr
87		Mumbai (?)	Mumbai		Marshall				Said to be 1921 vintage and with Mumbai Port Trust for most of its existence.  Repainted for 'Boiler 2020' in Mumbai. https://www.themachinemaker.com/mainnews/Boiler-India-2020.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERScTl-UwAIhwwL?format=jpg&name=large
101		Bandra Terminus	Mumbai	Railway Station	Tata-Marshall	8-10 ton single	126	(14) 14-12-1948	ISD, formerly at Valsad (picture left) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Railway_zone  Picture
102		Moradabad	Uttar Pradesh	Road junction near Divisional Railway Managers Office.	Tata Marshall			1949
103		Satpura	Madhya Pradesh	Satpura Tiger Reserve	Tata Marshall				Picture  https://adwimages.co.uk/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Steam-Engine.jpg  (revised address 16th April 2020)
104		Khimsar	Rajasthan	Privately preserved	Tata Marshall
105		Chandrapur	Maharashtra	Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve	Tata Marshall
106		Taoru	Haryana	Heritage Transport Museum	Tata Marshall			1954	Recovered from Gwalior 2019
107		Dhanbad	Bihar		Tata Marshall				Reported to be with other machinery 'near railway station'. The picture is by Mr. Resho Mahato of India's East Central Railway at Dhanbad.
121		Chandrapur	Maharashtra	?	Ruston & Hornsby			Not known

Notes:

Several - PWD - Public Works Department
63 - Assumed from Garrett's records
84 - Date of Acceptance

Other Miscellaneous Road Engines

		Place	State	Location	Maker	Size /Type	Works No.	Date	Customer
211		Roorkee	Uttarakand		Fowler	AA7 Class Ploughing	15366	1921
201		Chennai	Tamil Nadu	Railway Museum	Fowler	AA7 Class Ploughing	15613	1921
202.		near Ajmer	Rajasthan	See note below	Marshall		77282	1924
203		Kolkata	West Bengal	Howrah Railway Museum	Marshall	Portable
204		Bangalore	Karnataka	Visvesvarya Museum	Probably Marshall.	Portable
212		Taoru	Haryana	Heritage Transport Museum	Marshall	Portable
205		Sukna (Mohurgong)	West Bengal	See note below.	Ransomes, Head & Jefferies		5700	ca 1884
206		near Chandigarh	Punjab	Pinjore Gardens, 10 miles north	Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies	Portable			Click for more pictures
207		Katwa	West Bengal	Near the station, behind the loco shed	Ruston Proctor				Portable, picture dates from 2010
208		Rajahmundry	Andra Pradesh	Cotton Museum, Dowleswaram	(Ruston and Hornsby?)				Click for picture
209		Bangalore	Karnataka	Visvesvarya Museum	Sentinel (Alley & MacLellan)	'Standard' model	1496	1917
210		Mumbai	Maharashtra	Nehru Science Museum	Sentinel	'Super' model	6954

201. 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.
202. In a small holding near a main road. A portable together with two 'locomotive style' boilers probably used to power a stationary engine.
205. This engine is 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.
209. It was owned by Mazagon Docks Ltd.
210. 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.

Engines for which further information and pictures would be appreciated!

Notes:

a. Steam roller, for sale, 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