Diesel Loco Shed, Krishnarajapuram

Diesel Loco Shed, Krishnarajapuram is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for diesel locomotives and electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Krishnarajapuram (KJM) of the South Western Railway zone in the city of Bengaluru, Karnakata. It is one of two diesel loco sheds of the South Western Railway, the others being at Hubli.

Diesel Loco Shed, Krishnarajapuram
Location
LocationDevasandra, Krishnarajapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560036, India
Coordinates13.002399°N 77.692842°E / 13.002399; 77.692842,
Characteristics
Owner(s)Indian Railways
Operator(s)South Western Railway zone
Depot code(s)KJM
TypeEngine shed
Rolling stockWDM 3A, WDS 6, WDG 3A, WDP 4D, WDP 4, WDG 4, WAP 7, WAG 9
History
Opened1983 (1983)
Former rolling stockWDM 2

History

Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Mysore and Banglore until the late 1970s.[1] After Southern Railway set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1985, a push was given towards establishing diesel as the primary motive power, and the Krishnarajapuram Diesel locomotive shed was established in the year 1981[2] to meet these ends and the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad gauge lines from Bangalore to Secunderabad via Dharmavaram with the completion of gauge conversion of the Baiyyappanahalli - Gooty. The steameam sheds were subsequently decommissioned.

Initially, the shed handed only WDM-2 and WDS6 class locomotives, but gradually were allocated WDM3As, WDG3As and for a short time, was the only loco shed in the country to have WDM-3D locomotives allocated to its roster. The first loco to be homed at KJM was a WDS6 with road number #36012.[3][4] The shed received its First HHP loco WDP-4D(40114) from Hubli.[5] A large number of HHP locomotives such as WDP-4, WDP-4B, WDG-4 and WDP-4D are homed at Krishnarajapuram. From 2019, KJM started housing WAP-7 and WAG-9 locomotives.

Locomotives
SN Locomotives HP Quantity
1. WDM-3A 3100 22
2. WDG-3A 38
3. WDP-4/4D 4000/4500 111
4. WDS-6 1400 3
5. WDM-3D 3300 4
6. WDG-4/4D 4500 74
7. WAP-7 6122 11
8. WAG-9 11
Total Locomotives Active as of January 2021[6][7][8]274

Operations

Like all locomotive sheds, KJM does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at KJM but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair.

Locomotives of Krishnarajapuram DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Karnataka. KJM locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the Konkan Railway as well. As more and more railway lines in Kerala were electrified, KJM started losing links to electric locomotives, mainly WAP1, WAP4, WAG7 and WAP7 locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds.

Livery and Markings

Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Krishnarajapuram's locomotives have their current livery scheme as painted in Dark Blue with a wide light Blue band around the middle, with Light Blue lines on the top and bottom, to match with the erstwhile Rajdhani livery. The light blue bar and the Dark blue line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design.

References
  1. "[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  2. "Ernakulam Diesel Loco Shed" (PDF). indianrailways.gov.in. Indian Railways. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  3. "[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster-Ernakulam (ERS)-WDS-6 36012 Show". irfca.org. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  4. "june holding" (PDF).
  5. https://indiarailinfo.com/station/blog/ernakulam-diesel-loco-shed-dls-ers/12799#st
  6. "Railway Website Mechanical Department". Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  7. "e-Locos".
  8. "IRFCA".
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