YL-5001 --- This cute meter-gauge locomotive was built in the year 1953 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn, Darlington, United Kingdom. Post-independence until 1972, around 260 of YL class 2-6-2T steamer was imported & inducted phase by phase into the active branchline services for the mixed traffic haulage and thus comes with a lighter axle load. This loco was based on Izzatnagar and used to serve the extensive meter-gauge routes of north Uttar Pradesh. Now it is plinthed at Gorakhpur railway station. Photographed by Subhadyouti Bose. D.O.P. - 25th February 2017.