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The Indian locomotive class XC was a class of heavy axle load 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotives used on broad gauge lines in British India and then in post-partition India and Pakistan.The 72 members of the class were built in the United Kingdom between 1928 and 1931 some of them by William Beardmore & Co in Glasgow Scotland and the rest by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows Lancashire England.Upon partition of India in 1947 a total of 22 members of the class went to Pakistan.