Built in 1930 by Swiss Locomotive Works. Electrical equipment supplied by Metropolitan Vickers, UK. The EA-1 (WCP-1) were the first electric locomotives to run on Indian soil. This WCP-1 locos too bear a steam loco type of wheel arrangement. It was an electric locomotive which operated under 1500 Volts direct traction. It is famous for hauling the Bombay-Pune Deccan Queen Express in the early years when it was inaugurated. The dawn of high speed train travel in India started with the advent of EA-1s.