Indian Railways YL class 2-6-2 5113 at Jaipur loco shed

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Caption - Western Railway (India) Railways YL class 2-6-2 5113 at Jaipur loco shed during March 1978. 264 of these lightweight metre-gauge locos were built between 1952 and 1956 by Robert Stephenson (UK), Hitachi (Japan), Mavag (Hungary) and Henschel (Germany). 5113 was the first of the Henschel batch. The class was spread across most of the Indian Railways' system and their distribution in late 1975 was - CR 6, NR 13, NER 122, SR 46 and WR 74.

Country - India   Date - 1978   General Photo - 447

Image from the Lou Johnson Collection

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