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Description	Photograph of first locomotive, christened "Multum in Parvo" (Latin, "much in little"), shown on the right and manufactured in England, which was used by the East Indian Railway Company in 1854 on its first line from Howrah to Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles. The locomotive on the left is the latest model of 1897, the year this picture was taken in the Jamalpur Railway Workshop, Eastern India.
Source	http://ogimages.bl.uk/images/019/019PHO0000015S8U00012000%5BSVC2%5D.jpg (Elgin Collection, British Library)
Date	1897
Author	Unknown
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