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Electric Loco Shed, Tuglakabad
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  Location within Delhi | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Badarpur, Delhi |
| Coordinates | 28°30′45″N 77°17′26″E / 28.512366°N 77.290482°ECoordinates: 28°30′45″N 77°17′26″E / 28.512366°N 77.290482°E |
| Characteristics | |
| Owner | Indian Railways |
| Operator | West Central Railway zone |
| Depot code | TKD |
| Type | Engine shed |
| Roads | 6 |
| Rolling stock | WAP-7 WAG-9 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1977 |
| Former rolling stock | WAM 4 WAG-5 WAG-7 |
Electric Loco Shed, Tughlakabad is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Tughlakabad of the Northern Railway in Delhi, India. It is located in Northern Railways but comes under the jurisdiction of West Central railway zone. It is one of the three electric locomotive sheds of the West Central Railway zone, the others being at Itarsi (ET) and New Katni Jn (NKJ).[1]
History[edit]
Steam locomotives used to exist at Tuglakabad until the late 1970s.[2][3] After Western Railway (former, now under West Central Railways) set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1980s, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the steam locomotive sheds were decommissioned.[4] To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Delhi to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Tuglakabad was selected by Indian Railways for a new electric locomotive shed.[5]
Operations[edit]
Being one of the three electric engine sheds in West Central Railway, various major and minor maintenance schedules of electric locomotives are carried out here. It has the sanctioned capacity of 175 engine units. Beyond the operating capacity, this shed houses a total of 263 engine units including 119 WAP-7 and 144 WAG-9 units. It also formerly housed a few WAM-4 locomotives.[6] Electric loco Shed, Tuglakabad is now housing a large fleet of WAP-7 in Indian Railways and it caters to many long-distance electric trains.[7][8]
Like all locomotive sheds, TKD ELS does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at TKD ELS but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair. Locomotives of TKD ELS were the regular links for all trains running through Delhi and Madhya Pradesh when widespread electrification of railway lines started in West Central Railways. TKD locomotives are also used for Rajdhani trains as well. It handled prestigious trains like the Mahakoshal Express, Shaan-e-Bhopal Express, Duronto Express and many more.
Livery and Markings[edit]
TKD has its own markings on the locomotives. The Shed mainly uses stencils which is present on looks front and back body. TKD locomotives have a standardised livery all over India.
Locomotives[edit]
| SN | Type of Loco | HP | Holding | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | WAP-7 | 6122 | 119 | |
| 2. | WAG-9 | 6122 | 144 | File:TKD WAG9HC.jpg |
| Total Locomotives Active as of June 2022[9] | 263 | |||
References[edit]
- ↑ "West central railways".
- ↑ "[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
- ↑ "scan0189.jpg". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ↑ "Report of the expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Electric loco shed location". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ "Indian Railway-shed wise engine.holdings" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ "fleets under sheds". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ "List of Locos in amgul". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ "e-Locos".
