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Indian locomotive class YP
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1949· class of 871 metre-gauge 4-6-2 locomotives
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- 1. India - Railway Museum Mysore 62: Paweł 'pbm' Szubert ( talk )· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class YP are a class of 4-6-2 passenger locomotives built for Indian Railways' metre gauge network as one of several post-partition standard designs evolved from the pre-war Indian Railway Standard designs.
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
- 1949–1970
- in service from
- 1949
- number built
- 871
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, North British Locomotive Company, KraussMaffei, Tata Motors Limited
- operators
- Indian Railways, Oudh and Tirhut Railway, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q89926853, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class YP (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.