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There was also a Class XE that was built by [[William Beardmore & Company]] and Vulcan Foundry. Wartime designs included the Class AWD and Class AWE, built by American company [[Baldwin Locomotive Works]], and the Class X-Dominion (later Class CWD) built as part of Canada's [[Billion Dollar Gift and Mutual Aid|Mutual Aid program]] by two Canadian companies, the [[Canadian Locomotive Company]] and [[Montreal Locomotive Works]].<ref name="Hughes 1996">Hughes, Hugh. (1996). ''Indian Locomotives, Part 4 – 1941-1990''. Harrow, Middlesex: Continental Railway Circle, pp. 19-20, 24. {{ISBN|0-9521655-1-1}}</ref>

 

After the war, a new design was produced and placed in production in 1950. The [[Indian locomotive class WG|Class WG]] was the main post-war broad gauge freight locomotive type of the Indian Railways (IR). The first order of 200 was split evenly between NBL and [[Chittaranjan Locomotive Works]] (CLW). Apart from Indian manufacture, examples were also built in England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, the United States, Japan and Italy. By the time production ceased in 1970, 2,450 Class WG locomotives had been built.<ref name="Hughes 1996"/>