Electric Loco Shed, Kanpur

Electric Loco Shed, Kanpur
	File:CNB WAP7 37134.jpg Kanpur based WAP-7 roaming light at Samastipur Jn.
	Location within Uttar Pradesh
Location
Location	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Coordinates	26°27′19″N 80°19′44″E / 26.455402°N 80.328925°ECoordinates: 26°27′19″N 80°19′44″E / 26.455402°N 80.328925°E
Characteristics
Owner	Indian Railways
Operator	North Central Railways
Depot code	CNB
Type	Engine shed
Rolling stock	WAM-4 ; WAP-7 ; WAG-9
History
Opened	1965; 59 years ago
Former rolling stock	WAP-4 ; WAG-7

Electric Loco Shed, Kanpur is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Kanpur of the North Central Railway zone in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the two electric loco sheds in North Central railway zone the other being at Jhansi (JHS).

History[edit]

After Northern Railway (former, now under North 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.^[1] To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Uttar Pradesh rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Kanpur was selected by Indian Railways for a new electric locomotive shed.^[2]

After the electrification of Mughalsarai(Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar)-Kanpur section in 1965 the shed was established with a holding of 11 imported WAM-1 locomotives. In the late 1990s WAG-2 and WAG-4 which were the last remaining locomotives and which stayed until late 2000, when they we're withdrawn from service/scrapped. It later got a large fleet of WAG-7 locos from Jhansi.^[3]

Operations[edit]

Being one of the electric engine sheds in North 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 252 engine units, including 3 WAM-4, 76 WAP-7 and 173 WAG-9. Like all locomotive sheds, CNB does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. CNB locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling to north and east as well. It handled prestigious trains like Bihar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express and Gomti Express.

Livery and Markings[edit]

CNB has its own stencils which is marked on loco's front and back body. CNB based locos have standardised livery all over India.

Locomotives[edit]

SN	Type of Loco	HP	Holding	Images
1.	WAM-4	3640	3
2.	WAP-7	6350	76
3.	WAG-9	6120	173	File:CNB WAG9.jpg
Total locomotives active as of 1 May 2022^[4]			252

References[edit]

↑ "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.
↑ "Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list" (PDF).
↑ "e-Locos".

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[1] "Report of the Expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 29 April 2020.

[2] "Electric loco shed location". Retrieved 23 November 2016.

[3] "Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list" (PDF).

[4] "e-Locos".

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