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Indian locomotive class YD
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by AEG· from 1927· class of Indian metre-gauge 2-8-2 locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Indian Railways Class YD: Vulcan Foundry· Public domain
- 2. 073 PakistanMirpurKhas 19931219: MaltaGC (Nigel Tout)· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The YD class was a class of 2-8-2 tender locomotives built for metre-gauge railways of the British Raj, designed accordingly to the Indian Railway Standard (IRS).
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 99 years ago, in 1927.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927–1953
- number built
- 270
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- AEG, Henschel & Sohn, Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, Nippon Sharyo, Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Vulcan Foundry, Škoda Works, Borsig
- operators
- South Indian Railway Company, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Mysore State Railway, Gondal State Railway, Assam Bengal Railway, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, Myanma Railways, Pakistan Railways
- top speed
- 56 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- weight
- 52 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q120690430, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class YD (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.