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Indian locomotive class YG
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1949· class of 1074 metre-gauge 2-8-2 locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Old-Steam-Coal-Rail-Engine: Destination8infinity· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 763 IndiaBareilly 19931227: MaltaGC (Nigel Tout)· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class YG were a class of 2-8-2 metre-gauge goods locomotives introduced by Indian Railways around 1949. It was one of several standardised locomotive designs developed as further additions to the Indian Railway Standard (IRS) design locomotives built for the metre-gauge railways of India.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1949–1972
- in service from
- 1949
- number built
- 1,074
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Canadian Locomotive Company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Montreal Locomotive Works, Nippon Sharyo, Tata Motors Limited, Škoda Works, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
- operators
- Indian Railways, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Oudh and Tirhut Railway, South Indian Railway Company, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Tanzania Railways Corporation
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q89917830, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class YG (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.