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Indian locomotive class YL
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Henschel & Sohn· from 1952· class of metre-gauge 2-6-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Indian Railways Class YL: Historical Railway Images· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class YL were 2-6-2 locomotives built for Indian Railways' metre-gauge network as one of the standard designs developed post-partition from the Indian Railway Standard (IRS) design locomotives.
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1952–1957
- number built
- 264
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Henschel & Sohn, Hitachi, MÁVAG, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q89821078, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class YL (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.