Electric Loco Shed, Tuglakabad

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 one of the three electric locomotive sheds of the West Central Railway, the others being at Itarsi and New Katni Jn As of 1 August 2020 there are 203 locomotives in the shed.[1]

Electric Loco Shed, Tughlakabad
Location
LocationBadarpur, Delhi
Coordinates28.512366°N 77.290482°E / 28.512366; 77.290482
Characteristics
Owner(s)Indian Railways
Operator(s)West Central Railway zone
Depot code(s)TKD
TypeEngine shed
Roads6
Rolling stockWAP 7
WAG 9
History
Opened1977 (1977)
Former rolling stockWAM 4
WAG 5
WAG 7

History

Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Tughlakabad (Tughlakabad) until the late 1960s.[2][3] After Northern 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 was 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 Tughlakabad was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed.[5]

The shed was originally built to handle locos for the freight traffic on the busy New Delhi - Bombay route. It started receiving WAG-9 from 2008 and 2010 received WAM-4 locos to be operated in pairs on container trains. WAP-7 locos homed here in 2013. It later got a large fleet of WAG-5 locos, but later these were then moved to Ludhiana.[6] The shed also held a few WAM-4 units. All the WAM-4s of this shed have been retired/withdrawn from service. The WAG-7 units were later moved to New Katni Jn. shed.

Operations

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 203 engine units, including WAG-9 and 19 WAP-7. It also housed a WAM-4 locomotives temporarily.[7] Electric loco Shed, Tuglakabad is now housing the largest fleet of WAP-1 in Indian Railways and it caters to many long-distance electric trains.[8][9]

Like all locomotive sheds, TKD does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at TKD but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair. Locomotives of Tuglakabad ELS were the regular links for all trains running through Delhi when widespread electrification of railway lines started in Northern Railways. It handled prestigious trains like the Mumbai Rajdhani Express. TKD locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling to east as well. In 2010 received WAM-4 locos to be operated in pairs on container trains. These duties are now being done by WAG-9 locomotives

Livery and Markings

WAP-7 and WAG-9 class have a standardized livery all over India.

TKD has its own logo and stencils. It is written on a loco's body side as well as front and back side.

Locomotives
SN Type of Loco HP Holding Comments Images
1. WAP 7 6122 94 In service
2. WAG 9 6100 128 In service
Total Locomotives Active as of Fabruary 2021[10] 222

Former Locomotives
SN Type of Loco HP Comments Images
1. WAG-5H 3850 All now scrapped/Moved to other shed
2. WAM-4 3640 All now scrapped
1. WAG-7 5350 All units moved to New Katni shed

References
  1. "e-Locos".
  2. "[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  3. "scan0189.jpg". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  4. "Report of the expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  5. "Electric loco shed location". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  6. "Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list" (PDF).
  7. "Indian Railway-shed wise engine.holdings" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  8. "fleets under sheds". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  9. "List of Locos in TKD". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  10. "e-Locos".
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