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s built by Beyer, Peacock & Co. in

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, England, in 1949. The six members of the class were ordered by the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) immediately after World War II, and were a slightly modified version of the KUR's existing EC5 class. By the time the new locomotives were built and entered service, the KUR had been succeeded by the

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(EAR), which designated them for a very short time as its EC6 class, but then, as part of a comprehensive reclassification of all of its locomotives, redesignated them as its 56 class.

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The builder's and fleet numbers of each member of the class were as follows:

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