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Indian locomotive class YC
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company· from 1928· class of Indian metre-gauge 4-6-2 locomotives
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- 1. Indian Railways Class YC: Vulcan Foundry· Public domain
what is it?
The YC class was a class of 4-6-2 tender locomotives introduced from 1928 for the predecessor metre-gauge railway companies of the Indian Railways (IR) and the Burma Railways (BR), as part of the metre-gauge Indian Railway Standard (IRS) series of locomotive 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
- 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
- 1928–1948
- number built
- 38
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, Vulcan Foundry, Škoda Works
- operators
- Indian Railways, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Myanma Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
- weight
- 56.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q120690151, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class YC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.