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Indian locomotive class YM
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1956· class of 12 metre-gauge 2-6-4T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. YM 5757 at Secunderabad 1976: Historical Railway Images· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class YM were 2-6-4T tank locomotives built for Indian Railways' metre-gauge network, as one of the post-partition designs evolved from the Indian Railway Standard 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 70 years ago, in 1956.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1956
- in service from
- 1956
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-4
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q89820591, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class YM (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.