Electric Loco Shed, Ajni

Electric Loco Shed, Ajni is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Ajni of the Central Railway in Maharashtra, India. It is one of the three electric locomotive sheds of the Central Railway, the others being at Kalyan (KYN) and Bhusuwal. As of 1 December 2020, there are 275 locomotives in the shed.[1]

Electric Loco Shed, Ajni
Location
LocationAjni, Maharashtra
Coordinates21.117160°N 79.082037°E / 21.117160; 79.082037
Characteristics
Owner(s)Indian Railways
Operator(s)Central Railways
Depot code(s)AQ
TypeEngine shed
Roads6
Rolling stockWAP 7
WAG 7
WAG 9
History
Opened2005 (2005)
Former rolling stockWAM-4

History

After Central Railway set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the Steam locomotive sheds were decommissioned.[2] To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad gauge lines from Odisha to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Ajni was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed.[3]

In the late 2003 WAM-4 were introduced which stayed until late 2000, when they were transferred to Itarsi It later got a large fleet of WAG-7 locos from other sheds.[4]

Operations

Being one of the three electric engine sheds in 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 207 engine units,all WAP-7 units. It also housed a few WAM-4 locomotives temporarily.[5] Electric loco Shed, Ajni is now housing a large fleet of WAG-7 in Indian Railways and it caters to many long-distance electric trains.[6][7]

Like all locomotive sheds, AJNI does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at AJNI but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair. Locomotives of Ajni ELS along with Itarsi ELS were the regular links for all trains running through maharashtra when widespread electrification of railway lines started in East coast Railways. AJNI locomotives are also used for Rajdhani trains as well.

A facility is planned in future to handle maintenance of WAG 12 locos of Indian Railway. At Ajni, maintenance of these locos will start from 291st engine produced.[8]

Livery and Markings

Ajni WAP-7 has Haldiram's Sweets & Namkeens advertised on loco's body side.

Ajni locomotives have a standardized livery all over India.

Locomotives
SN Type of Loco HP Holding Comments Images
1. WAG-7 5350 43 In service
2. WAP-7 6100 64 In service
3. WAG-9 6100 167 In service
Total Locomotives Active as of Fabruary 2021[9]274

Former Locomotives
SN Type of Loco HP Comments Images
1. WAM-4 3640 Moved to Itarsi, now scrapped
Total Locomotives Active as of July 2020[10]

See also

References
  1. "e-Locos".
  2. "Report of the expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. "Electric loco shed location". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  4. "Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list" (PDF).
  5. "Indian Railway-shed wise engine.holdings" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  6. "fleets under sheds". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  7. "List of Locos in amgul". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  8. "CRly gets loco that can pull 116 loaded wagons".
  9. "e-Locos".
  10. "e-Locos".
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