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Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock

2023-03-19T12:24:21Z

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{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock
| image = File:GOC WDG-3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.5
| image_alt = 
| caption = GOC based WDG-3A hauling Punalur Express.
| location = [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|10.7932|78.7107|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = GOC
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1975|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDP-3A|WDP-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-4|WDG-4]] and [[Indian locomotive class WDP-4|WDP-4]]
| routes =
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock''' is an [[engine shed]] located in [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in [[India]]. It is located north of [[Golden Rock railway station]], falling under [[Tiruchirappalli railway division]]. It is the largest of the four locomotive shed under the [[Southern Railway zone]] of [[Indian Railways]] the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet|Tondiarpet]] (TNP), [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS).<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref><ref name=dsllarge>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Golden Rock Loco Shed named the best|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/golden-rock-loco-shed-named-the-best/article4952208.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 July 2013}}</ref>
[[File:GOC DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of Trichy Malaikottai (Rockfort) Temple '''Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock Ponmalai Trichy''']]

== History and developments ==
The foundation stone for the shed was laid on the 25th of December, 1971 by the then [[Minister of Railways (India)|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiah|K Hanumanthaiya]]. The shed was open for operations in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

The shed initially homed 45 of the [[Indian locomotive class YDM-4|YDM-4]] class [[Metre-gauge railway|metre gauge locomotives]]. Three subsequent expansions were taken up which resulted in the holding capacity being increased to 100 metre gauge locomotives (1998), 40 [[Broad-gauge railway|broad gauge]] locomotives (1993) and 100 broad gauge locomotives (2000).<ref name="dslgoc" />

== Infrastructure ==
The shed was started as a metre gauge shed. However with expansion over time, the bays and catwalks were converted from metre gauge to broad gauge standards to home broad gauge locomotives. Later, the shed went for a major expansion of its bays at a cost of {{INRConvert|14|c}} to undertake maintenance activity for the unconventionally longer high-speed 4,000–[[Horsepower|Hp]] and 4,500–Hp [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]] locos, which were homed since July 2011, thus becoming the first-of-its-kind shed in India to maintain such high powered locos, which were extensively utilised for both passenger and freight services.<ref>{{Cite news|title = New bays opened at Golden Rock Diesel Loco Shed|date = 2 January 2014|url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/new-bays-opened-at-golden-rock-diesel-loco-shed/article5529084.ece|work = [[The Hindu]]|location = [[Tiruchi]]|access-date = 8 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=dslstr>{{cite news|title=New broad gauge bay inaugurated at Golden Rock workshop|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/New-broad-gauge-bay-inaugurated-at-Golden-Rock-workshop/articleshow/28302697.cms|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=3 January 2014}}</ref> The shed also houses a Diesel Traction and Training Centre (DTTC), opened on 7 April 1988, to impart theoretical and practical training for the newly recruited Assistant [[Engine driver|Loco Pilots]], Engineers and other technical staffs. The centre only one of its kind in the zone also conducts periodical refresher courses for the in-service staffs of [[Indian Railways]],<ref name=dsllarge/> and also too railway personnels from other countries.<ref name=sudan>{{cite news|title=Goldenrock training programme a hit with Sudan railway staff|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225085825/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 February 2006|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=17 February 2006}}</ref><ref name=angola>{{cite news|title=Divisional Training Centres to come up|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/divisional-training-centres-to-come-up/article3169327.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 March 2006}}</ref> The DTTC along with Zonal Railway Training Institute (ZRTI), Trichy made a mark by imparting training to women, by which Narayana Vadivu and Jhansi Rani, became the first all women loco crew in the history of Southern Railway zone piloting a goods train on the [[Chord Line, Tamil Nadu|chord line]].<ref name=womancrew>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Southern Railway deploys women to pilot goods train|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/southern-railway-deploys-women-to-pilot-goods-train/article5184091.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 September 2013}}</ref>

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

Locomotives of Golden Rock shed are the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu. GOC locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Southern Railway zone]] .
It currently has a link of 75 Diesel locos and handles prestigious trains like the [[Amritha Express]] & [[Ajmer–Rameswaram Humsafar Express|Humsafar express]], [[Boat Mail]] and [[Rameswaram–Faizabad Shraddha Sethu Express|Shraddha Sethu Express]], fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.
Being one of the four diesel engine sheds in Southern Railway under the territory of [[Salem railway division]],<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering – Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=[[Railway Board]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123102242/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us |url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494 |work=[[Southern Railway zone]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494 |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!Image
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 3
|[[File:The WDM-2 class Locomotive of Indian Railways.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
| rowspan="2" | 3100/3300
| 17
|[[File:Kuttipuram.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 42
|[[File:BMO - HYB Pass. (27731632662).jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 4.
| WDM-3D
| 3300
| 8
|[[File:GOC WDG3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 5.
| WDP-3A
| 3100
| 7
|[[File:GOC WDP3A.jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 6.
| WDG-4/4D
| rowspan="2"| 4500
| 35
|[[File:PUNE WDG-4 (22194947195).jpg|WDG-4|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| 7.
| WDP-4B/4D
| 40
|[[File:GOC WDP4D.jpg|alt=|frameless|WDP-4]]
|-
| 8.
| WDS-6
| rowspan="2"| 1400
| 2
|[[File:GOC WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 9.
| YDM-4
| 5
|[[File:ரயில் பாலம், புனலுறு.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||159
|
|}

== Awards ==
The shed was adjudged the best shed among in the Southern Railway zone during 2012–2013. Also it won the "Performance Efficiency Shield" for the fifth time, since its inception in 2004–2005.<ref name=dsllarge/><ref name=dslstr/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}
{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Tiruchirappalli}}

[[Category:Trichy railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|GOLDEN]]
[[Category:1975 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Tiruchirappalli]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet

2023-03-19T11:56:10Z

2401:4900:1CE3:3D5:F8EE:4656:166:2824:

{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet
| image = File:TNP WDM3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.25
| image_alt = 
| caption = Tondiarpet based WDM-3A hauling Brindavan Express skipping Baiyappanahalli
| location = [[Tondiarpet]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| map_type = India Tamil Nadu
| coordinates = {{coord |13.1268|N|80.2815|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN-TN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = TNP
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1972|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM 2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS 6]]
| routes = 
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''' is a [[motive power depot]] performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for [[diesel locomotive]]s of the [[Indian Railways]]. It is located near [[Tondiarpet railway station]] (TNP) of the [[Southern Railway zone]] in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu<ref name="irmedsl">{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="oneof">{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> and is one of the four diesel loco sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS) at [[Kochi]], [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]] (GOC) at Trichy.
[[File:TNP DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of flying Dove '''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''']]

== History and developments ==
On 25 December 1971, the then [[Railway Minister of India|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiya]], laid the foundation stone for the loco shed. After four years of construction, it was finally opened in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}. It initially homed [[YDM-4]] class [[Meter gauge|MG]] locomotives, and was once expanded in 1993 to hold [[Broad Gauge]] locomotives and again in 2000 to accommodate more than 100 locos.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

Tondiarpet diesel loco shed is located to the north of the station. The diesel shed was commissioned in October 1972. Earlier a steam shed used to exist with 14 [[Indian locomotive class WG|WG]] locomotives, but this shed was decommissioned and subsequently demolished to make way for the diesel shed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> The new diesel shed got a batch of [[Indian locomotive class WDS-4|WDS-4B]] [[diesel locomotive]]s as its first locomotives. These locomotives were used for shunting in the [[Tondiarpet marshalling yard|marshalling yard at Tondiarpet]], the goods sheds at [[Royapuram]], [[Salt Cotaurs]], and the coaching depot at [[Basin Bridge]] in Chennai division.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19221 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6460?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=2&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway (10)|url=https://www.irfca.org/gallery/imagebank/Railway%20_10_.jpg.html|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19533 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6772?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=3&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref> later the number of WDS-4B locomotives was increased to 64 for meeting increasing demand in [[Tiruchirappalli railway division|Trichi]], [[Palakkad railway division|Palakkad]], [[Bangalore railway division|Bangalore]], [[Thiruvananthapuram railway division|Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Mysore railway division|Mysore]] divisions and [[Integral Coach Factory|ICF]], [[Perambur railway station|Perambur]]. As the WDS-4 fleet began to reach the end of their serviceable life, WDM-7 locomotives were transferred from Ernakulam and put into service on both passenger and yard shunting work. In April 2007, mainline WDM2-model from Erode locomotives were additionally inducted for hauling goods. Now the shed holds X WDM-2, Y WDG-3A, Z WDM-3A, X WDS-6 and 14 WDM-7

The shed has a total area of 75,000 sq m, including a covered area of 6,652 sq m, has a capacity of 50 locomotives. The shed employs about 378 persons.<ref name="india railways tondiarpet">{{cite web|title=Brief history of Diesel shed Tondiarpet|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Tondiarpet.pdf|date=1 July 2010|publisher=Indian Railways|access-date=1 Dec 2012}}</ref>

== Operations ==
The shed, headed by Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Diesel), has about 750 employees in different ranks in the day-to-day operations of the shed, which include periodical overhaul, maintenance and repair works.<ref name=dsldme>{{cite web|title=Chapter 2 : Assessment, Procurement/ Production, Utilisation and Maintenance of Locomotives in Indian Railways |url=http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |work=[[Comptroller and Auditor General of India]] |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201231141/http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |archive-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> The locos of this shed were thoroughly traverses over entire South India for passenger and freight services.<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref> Like all locomotive sheds, TNP does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at TNP but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair.

Locomotives of Tondiarpet DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu, even though widespread electrification of railway lines started in Tamil Nadu. TNP locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Konkan Railway]] as well. As more and more railway lines in Tamil Nadu were electrified, TNP started losing links to [[electric locomotive]]s, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP-1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]], [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds. Despite all the electrification across the country, TNP locomotives still take trains as far as Gujarat, Bikaner and in the Shornur- Nilambur line of Kerala.

== Livery and markings ==
Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Tondiarpet's locomotives have their current livery scheme painted in light blue with a wide cream band around the middle, with dark blue lines on the top and bottom, to match with the ICF livery. The dark blue bar and the light blue line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design. This orange-cream-orange color scheme gives the locomotives a cheerful and pleasant look. One locomotive, WDM-7A #11008 is in an experimental light green-cream-light green scheme.

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!IMAGE
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 2
|
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
|rowspan="2"| 3100
| 20
|[[File:TNP WDM3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 5
|
|-
| 4.
| WDM-7
| 2000
| 15
|
[[File:ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ, ബ്രോഡ് ഗേജ്.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 6.
| WDS-4
|700
| 1
| [[File:Diesel hydraulic loco.JPG|frameless|217x217px]]
|-
| 5.
| WDS-6
| 1400
| 13
|[[File:TNP WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2021'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||56
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}

{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Chennai}}

[[Category:Chennai railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|T]]
[[Category:1972 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Chennai]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet

2023-03-19T11:55:04Z

2401:4900:1CE3:3D5:F8EE:4656:166:2824:

{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet
| image = File:TNP WDM3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.25
| image_alt = 
| caption = Tondiarpet based WDM-3A hauling Brindavan Express skipping Baiyappanahalli
| location = [[Tondiarpet]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| map_type = India Tamil Nadu
| coordinates = {{coord |13.1268|N|80.2815|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN-TN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = TNP
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1972|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM 2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS 6]]
| routes = 
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''' is a [[motive power depot]] performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for [[diesel locomotive]]s of the [[Indian Railways]]. It is located near [[Tondiarpet railway station]] (TNP) of the [[Southern Railway zone]] in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu<ref name="irmedsl">{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="oneof">{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> and is one of the four diesel loco sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS) at [[Kochi]], [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]] (GOC) at Trichy.
[[File:TNP DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of flying Pura '''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''']]

== History and developments ==
On 25 December 1971, the then [[Railway Minister of India|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiya]], laid the foundation stone for the loco shed. After four years of construction, it was finally opened in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}. It initially homed [[YDM-4]] class [[Meter gauge|MG]] locomotives, and was once expanded in 1993 to hold [[Broad Gauge]] locomotives and again in 2000 to accommodate more than 100 locos.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

Tondiarpet diesel loco shed is located to the north of the station. The diesel shed was commissioned in October 1972. Earlier a steam shed used to exist with 14 [[Indian locomotive class WG|WG]] locomotives, but this shed was decommissioned and subsequently demolished to make way for the diesel shed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> The new diesel shed got a batch of [[Indian locomotive class WDS-4|WDS-4B]] [[diesel locomotive]]s as its first locomotives. These locomotives were used for shunting in the [[Tondiarpet marshalling yard|marshalling yard at Tondiarpet]], the goods sheds at [[Royapuram]], [[Salt Cotaurs]], and the coaching depot at [[Basin Bridge]] in Chennai division.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19221 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6460?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=2&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway (10)|url=https://www.irfca.org/gallery/imagebank/Railway%20_10_.jpg.html|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19533 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6772?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=3&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref> later the number of WDS-4B locomotives was increased to 64 for meeting increasing demand in [[Tiruchirappalli railway division|Trichi]], [[Palakkad railway division|Palakkad]], [[Bangalore railway division|Bangalore]], [[Thiruvananthapuram railway division|Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Mysore railway division|Mysore]] divisions and [[Integral Coach Factory|ICF]], [[Perambur railway station|Perambur]]. As the WDS-4 fleet began to reach the end of their serviceable life, WDM-7 locomotives were transferred from Ernakulam and put into service on both passenger and yard shunting work. In April 2007, mainline WDM2-model from Erode locomotives were additionally inducted for hauling goods. Now the shed holds X WDM-2, Y WDG-3A, Z WDM-3A, X WDS-6 and 14 WDM-7

The shed has a total area of 75,000 sq m, including a covered area of 6,652 sq m, has a capacity of 50 locomotives. The shed employs about 378 persons.<ref name="india railways tondiarpet">{{cite web|title=Brief history of Diesel shed Tondiarpet|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Tondiarpet.pdf|date=1 July 2010|publisher=Indian Railways|access-date=1 Dec 2012}}</ref>

== Operations ==
The shed, headed by Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Diesel), has about 750 employees in different ranks in the day-to-day operations of the shed, which include periodical overhaul, maintenance and repair works.<ref name=dsldme>{{cite web|title=Chapter 2 : Assessment, Procurement/ Production, Utilisation and Maintenance of Locomotives in Indian Railways |url=http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |work=[[Comptroller and Auditor General of India]] |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201231141/http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |archive-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> The locos of this shed were thoroughly traverses over entire South India for passenger and freight services.<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref> Like all locomotive sheds, TNP does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at TNP but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair.

Locomotives of Tondiarpet DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu, even though widespread electrification of railway lines started in Tamil Nadu. TNP locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Konkan Railway]] as well. As more and more railway lines in Tamil Nadu were electrified, TNP started losing links to [[electric locomotive]]s, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP-1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]], [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds. Despite all the electrification across the country, TNP locomotives still take trains as far as Gujarat, Bikaner and in the Shornur- Nilambur line of Kerala.

== Livery and markings ==
Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Tondiarpet's locomotives have their current livery scheme painted in light blue with a wide cream band around the middle, with dark blue lines on the top and bottom, to match with the ICF livery. The dark blue bar and the light blue line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design. This orange-cream-orange color scheme gives the locomotives a cheerful and pleasant look. One locomotive, WDM-7A #11008 is in an experimental light green-cream-light green scheme.

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!IMAGE
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 2
|
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
|rowspan="2"| 3100
| 20
|[[File:TNP WDM3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 5
|
|-
| 4.
| WDM-7
| 2000
| 15
|
[[File:ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ, ബ്രോഡ് ഗേജ്.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 6.
| WDS-4
|700
| 1
| [[File:Diesel hydraulic loco.JPG|frameless|217x217px]]
|-
| 5.
| WDS-6
| 1400
| 13
|[[File:TNP WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2021'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||56
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}

{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Chennai}}

[[Category:Chennai railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|T]]
[[Category:1972 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Chennai]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock

2023-03-19T11:53:43Z

2401:4900:1CE3:3D5:F8EE:4656:166:2824:

{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock
| image = File:GOC WDG-3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.5
| image_alt = 
| caption = GOC based WDG-3A hauling Punalur Express.
| location = [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|10.7932|78.7107|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = GOC
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1975|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDP-3A|WDP-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-4|WDG-4]] and [[Indian locomotive class WDP-4|WDP-4]]
| routes =
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock''' is an [[engine shed]] located in [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in [[India]]. It is located north of [[Golden Rock railway station]], falling under [[Tiruchirappalli railway division]]. It is the largest of the four locomotive shed under the [[Southern Railway zone]] of [[Indian Railways]] the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet|Tondiarpet]] (TNP), [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS).<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref><ref name=dsllarge>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Golden Rock Loco Shed named the best|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/golden-rock-loco-shed-named-the-best/article4952208.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 July 2013}}</ref>
[[File:GOC DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of Trichy Malaikottai (Rockfort) Temple '''Diesel Loco Shed, Ponmalai Golden Rock''']]

== History and developments ==
The foundation stone for the shed was laid on the 25th of December, 1971 by the then [[Minister of Railways (India)|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiah|K Hanumanthaiya]]. The shed was open for operations in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

The shed initially homed 45 of the [[Indian locomotive class YDM-4|YDM-4]] class [[Metre-gauge railway|metre gauge locomotives]]. Three subsequent expansions were taken up which resulted in the holding capacity being increased to 100 metre gauge locomotives (1998), 40 [[Broad-gauge railway|broad gauge]] locomotives (1993) and 100 broad gauge locomotives (2000).<ref name="dslgoc" />

== Infrastructure ==
The shed was started as a metre gauge shed. However with expansion over time, the bays and catwalks were converted from metre gauge to broad gauge standards to home broad gauge locomotives. Later, the shed went for a major expansion of its bays at a cost of {{INRConvert|14|c}} to undertake maintenance activity for the unconventionally longer high-speed 4,000–[[Horsepower|Hp]] and 4,500–Hp [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]] locos, which were homed since July 2011, thus becoming the first-of-its-kind shed in India to maintain such high powered locos, which were extensively utilised for both passenger and freight services.<ref>{{Cite news|title = New bays opened at Golden Rock Diesel Loco Shed|date = 2 January 2014|url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/new-bays-opened-at-golden-rock-diesel-loco-shed/article5529084.ece|work = [[The Hindu]]|location = [[Tiruchi]]|access-date = 8 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=dslstr>{{cite news|title=New broad gauge bay inaugurated at Golden Rock workshop|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/New-broad-gauge-bay-inaugurated-at-Golden-Rock-workshop/articleshow/28302697.cms|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=3 January 2014}}</ref> The shed also houses a Diesel Traction and Training Centre (DTTC), opened on 7 April 1988, to impart theoretical and practical training for the newly recruited Assistant [[Engine driver|Loco Pilots]], Engineers and other technical staffs. The centre only one of its kind in the zone also conducts periodical refresher courses for the in-service staffs of [[Indian Railways]],<ref name=dsllarge/> and also too railway personnels from other countries.<ref name=sudan>{{cite news|title=Goldenrock training programme a hit with Sudan railway staff|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225085825/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 February 2006|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=17 February 2006}}</ref><ref name=angola>{{cite news|title=Divisional Training Centres to come up|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/divisional-training-centres-to-come-up/article3169327.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 March 2006}}</ref> The DTTC along with Zonal Railway Training Institute (ZRTI), Trichy made a mark by imparting training to women, by which Narayana Vadivu and Jhansi Rani, became the first all women loco crew in the history of Southern Railway zone piloting a goods train on the [[Chord Line, Tamil Nadu|chord line]].<ref name=womancrew>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Southern Railway deploys women to pilot goods train|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/southern-railway-deploys-women-to-pilot-goods-train/article5184091.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 September 2013}}</ref>

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

Locomotives of Golden Rock shed are the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu. GOC locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Southern Railway zone]] .
It currently has a link of 75 Diesel locos and handles prestigious trains like the [[Amritha Express]] & [[Ajmer–Rameswaram Humsafar Express|Humsafar express]], [[Boat Mail]] and [[Rameswaram–Faizabad Shraddha Sethu Express|Shraddha Sethu Express]], fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.
Being one of the four diesel engine sheds in Southern Railway under the territory of [[Salem railway division]],<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering – Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=[[Railway Board]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123102242/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us |url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494 |work=[[Southern Railway zone]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494 |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!Image
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 3
|[[File:The WDM-2 class Locomotive of Indian Railways.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
| rowspan="2" | 3100/3300
| 17
|[[File:Kuttipuram.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 42
|[[File:BMO - HYB Pass. (27731632662).jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 4.
| WDM-3D
| 3300
| 8
|[[File:GOC WDG3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 5.
| WDP-3A
| 3100
| 7
|[[File:GOC WDP3A.jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 6.
| WDG-4/4D
| rowspan="2"| 4500
| 35
|[[File:PUNE WDG-4 (22194947195).jpg|WDG-4|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| 7.
| WDP-4B/4D
| 40
|[[File:GOC WDP4D.jpg|alt=|frameless|WDP-4]]
|-
| 8.
| WDS-6
| rowspan="2"| 1400
| 2
|[[File:GOC WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 9.
| YDM-4
| 5
|[[File:ரயில் பாலம், புனலுறு.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||159
|
|}

== Awards ==
The shed was adjudged the best shed among in the Southern Railway zone during 2012–2013. Also it won the "Performance Efficiency Shield" for the fifth time, since its inception in 2004–2005.<ref name=dsllarge/><ref name=dslstr/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}
{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Tiruchirappalli}}

[[Category:Trichy railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|GOLDEN]]
[[Category:1975 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Tiruchirappalli]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet

2023-03-19T11:49:02Z

2401:4900:1CE3:3D5:F8EE:4656:166:2824:

{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet
| image = File:TNP WDM3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.25
| image_alt = 
| caption = Tondiarpet based WDM-3A hauling Brindavan Express skipping Baiyappanahalli
| location = [[Tondiarpet]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| map_type = India Tamil Nadu
| coordinates = {{coord |13.1268|N|80.2815|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN-TN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = TNP
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1972|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM 2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS 6]]
| routes = 
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''' is a [[motive power depot]] performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for [[diesel locomotive]]s of the [[Indian Railways]]. It is located near [[Tondiarpet railway station]] (TNP) of the [[Southern Railway zone]] in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu<ref name="irmedsl">{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="oneof">{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> and is one of the four diesel loco sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS) at [[Kochi]], [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]] (GOC) at Trichy.
[[File:TNP DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of flying Dowe '''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''']]

== History and developments ==
On 25 December 1971, the then [[Railway Minister of India|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiya]], laid the foundation stone for the loco shed. After four years of construction, it was finally opened in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}. It initially homed [[YDM-4]] class [[Meter gauge|MG]] locomotives, and was once expanded in 1993 to hold [[Broad Gauge]] locomotives and again in 2000 to accommodate more than 100 locos.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

Tondiarpet diesel loco shed is located to the north of the station. The diesel shed was commissioned in October 1972. Earlier a steam shed used to exist with 14 [[Indian locomotive class WG|WG]] locomotives, but this shed was decommissioned and subsequently demolished to make way for the diesel shed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> The new diesel shed got a batch of [[Indian locomotive class WDS-4|WDS-4B]] [[diesel locomotive]]s as its first locomotives. These locomotives were used for shunting in the [[Tondiarpet marshalling yard|marshalling yard at Tondiarpet]], the goods sheds at [[Royapuram]], [[Salt Cotaurs]], and the coaching depot at [[Basin Bridge]] in Chennai division.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19221 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6460?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=2&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway (10)|url=https://www.irfca.org/gallery/imagebank/Railway%20_10_.jpg.html|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19533 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6772?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=3&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref> later the number of WDS-4B locomotives was increased to 64 for meeting increasing demand in [[Tiruchirappalli railway division|Trichi]], [[Palakkad railway division|Palakkad]], [[Bangalore railway division|Bangalore]], [[Thiruvananthapuram railway division|Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Mysore railway division|Mysore]] divisions and [[Integral Coach Factory|ICF]], [[Perambur railway station|Perambur]]. As the WDS-4 fleet began to reach the end of their serviceable life, WDM-7 locomotives were transferred from Ernakulam and put into service on both passenger and yard shunting work. In April 2007, mainline WDM2-model from Erode locomotives were additionally inducted for hauling goods. Now the shed holds X WDM-2, Y WDG-3A, Z WDM-3A, X WDS-6 and 14 WDM-7

The shed has a total area of 75,000 sq m, including a covered area of 6,652 sq m, has a capacity of 50 locomotives. The shed employs about 378 persons.<ref name="india railways tondiarpet">{{cite web|title=Brief history of Diesel shed Tondiarpet|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Tondiarpet.pdf|date=1 July 2010|publisher=Indian Railways|access-date=1 Dec 2012}}</ref>

== Operations ==
The shed, headed by Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Diesel), has about 750 employees in different ranks in the day-to-day operations of the shed, which include periodical overhaul, maintenance and repair works.<ref name=dsldme>{{cite web|title=Chapter 2 : Assessment, Procurement/ Production, Utilisation and Maintenance of Locomotives in Indian Railways |url=http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |work=[[Comptroller and Auditor General of India]] |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201231141/http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |archive-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> The locos of this shed were thoroughly traverses over entire South India for passenger and freight services.<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref> Like all locomotive sheds, TNP does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at TNP but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair.

Locomotives of Tondiarpet DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu, even though widespread electrification of railway lines started in Tamil Nadu. TNP locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Konkan Railway]] as well. As more and more railway lines in Tamil Nadu were electrified, TNP started losing links to [[electric locomotive]]s, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP-1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]], [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds. Despite all the electrification across the country, TNP locomotives still take trains as far as Gujarat, Bikaner and in the Shornur- Nilambur line of Kerala.

== Livery and markings ==
Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Tondiarpet's locomotives have their current livery scheme painted in light blue with a wide cream band around the middle, with dark blue lines on the top and bottom, to match with the ICF livery. The dark blue bar and the light blue line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design. This orange-cream-orange color scheme gives the locomotives a cheerful and pleasant look. One locomotive, WDM-7A #11008 is in an experimental light green-cream-light green scheme.

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!IMAGE
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 2
|
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
|rowspan="2"| 3100
| 20
|[[File:TNP WDM3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 5
|
|-
| 4.
| WDM-7
| 2000
| 15
|
[[File:ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ, ബ്രോഡ് ഗേജ്.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 6.
| WDS-4
|700
| 1
| [[File:Diesel hydraulic loco.JPG|frameless|217x217px]]
|-
| 5.
| WDS-6
| 1400
| 13
|[[File:TNP WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2021'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||56
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}

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{{Transport in Chennai}}

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[[Category:Railway depots in India|T]]
[[Category:1972 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Chennai]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam

2023-03-19T11:46:32Z

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{{Short description|Loco shed in Kerala, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam
| image = File:ERS WDM3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.5
| image_width =
| image_alt = 
| caption = ERS based WDM-3A twins hauling Porbandar–Kochuveli Express
| location = Karshaka Road, [[Kadavanthra]], [[Kochi]], [[Kerala]], India
| coordinates = {{Coord|9.9733|76.2910|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = ERS
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1981|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads =
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]] [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG-3A]] [[Indian locomotive class WDP-4|WDP-4D]]
| former_rolling_stock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]] [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS-6]]
| routes =
| map_type = India Kerala
| map_size = 200
}}
'''Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam''' is a [[motive power depot]] performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for diesel locomotives of the [[Indian Railways]], located at {{stnlnk|Ernakulam Junction}} (ERS) of the [[Southern Railway zone]] in the city of [[Kochi]], [[Kerala]]. It is one of the four diesel loco sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet|Tondiarpet]] (TNP) at Chennai, [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]] (GOC) at Trichy and the only locomotive shed in Kerala and the southernmost loco shed in India.

[[File:ERS DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of Kerala Culture heritage '''Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam''']]

== History ==
Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at {{stnlnk|Kollam Junction}} (QLN) and {{stnlnk|Shoranur Junction}} (SRR) until the late 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|publisher=IRFCA|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> 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 Ernakulam Diesel locomotive shed was established in the year 1981<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Ernakulam.pdf|title=Ernakulam Diesel Loco Shed|website=indianrailways.gov.in|publisher=Indian Railways|access-date=13 December 2016}}</ref> to meet these ends and the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Trivandrum to Mangalore and Palakkad with the completion of gauge conversion of the [[Ernakulam–Kottayam–Kayamkulam line|Ernakulam – Kottayam – Kayamkulam line.]] The steam sheds at SRR and QLN were subsequently decommissioned.

Initially, the shed handed only [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]] and [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS6]] class locomotives, but gradually were allocated WDM3As, WDG3As and for a short time, was the only loco shed in the country to have [[Indian locomotive class WDM-7|WDM7]] locomotives allocated to its roster. The first loco to be homed at ERS was a WDS6 with road number #36012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://irfca.org/apps/locos/show/7005?page=8|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster-Ernakulam (ERS)-WDS-6 36012 Show|publisher=IRFCA|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> The last WDM-2 (18701) was removed from service in June 2019 after being in the shed for 38 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/Traction/2019/Diesel_Loco_Availabilty_Target_June-2019.pdf|title=june holding}}</ref> The shed received its First HHP loco [[EMD GT46PAC|WDP-4D]](40114) from GOC in December 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiarailinfo.com/station/blog/ernakulam-diesel-loco-shed-dls-ers/12799#st|title = Ernakulam Diesel Loco Shed Railway Station Forum/Discussion – Railway Enquiry}}</ref>

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

Locomotives of Ernakulam DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Kerala until around the year 2000 when widespread electrification of railway lines started in Kerala. Until then it handled prestigious trains like the double-headed [[Kerala Express]] and the [[Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express|Trivandrum Rajdhani]] Express. ERS 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, ERS started losing links to [[electric locomotive]]s, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP-1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]], WAG-7 and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds. Ironically, the [[Thiruvananthapuram railway division]] in which ERS is located has 100% electrified lines.

Despite all the electrification across the country, ERS locomotives still take trains as far as Gujarat, Bikaner and in the Shornur–Nilambur line of Kerala. The [[Ernakulam–Okha Express]] runs with two ERS locomotives in multiple unit operation. The 12201/12202 [[Kochuveli–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Garib Rath Express|LTT–Kochuveli Garib Rath]] is the only ERS link running south of Ernakulam. A prestigious link for ERS was the [[Dadar–Madgaon Jan Shatabdi Express]] which was regularly hauled by an ERS WDM-3A for a long time.

== Livery and markings ==
Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Ernakulam's locomotives have their current livery scheme as painted in orange with a wide cream band around the middle, with orange lines on the top and bottom, to match with the erstwhile Rajdhani livery. The livery was introduced to match that of the Trivandrum Rajdhani when it was introduced sometime in 1997 as ERS considered the Rajdhani its most prestigious link. The cream bar and the orange line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design. This orange–cream–orange color scheme gives the locomotives a cheerful and pleasant look. One locomotive, WDM-3A #16666 was for a short time painted in an experimental light green–cream–light green scheme. Originally, the livery scheme of the Ernakulam shed was yellow at the top and spinach-green at the bottom.

== Closure controversy ==
In October 2013, Southern Railways submitted a proposal to the railway board to shut down the Ernakulam DLS and convert it into an electric loco shed. Employees at the loco shed, later joined in by the public and people's representatives protested against this decision, alleging a plan to move the shed to Mangalore, demanding the ELS should be established without closing the DLS as it was the only major railway establishment in Kerala. After protests got much popular support, Southern Railway backed down from its move to close the shed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.railnews.co.in/railway-staff-protest-move-to-close-down-diesel-loco-shed/|title=Railway staff protest move to close down diesel loco shed at Ernakulam – RailNews Media India Ltd|website=www.railnews.co.in|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/diesel-loco-shed-likely-to-be-closed/article5216184.ece|title=Diesel loco shed likely to be closed|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
! Images
|-
| 1.
| WDM-3A
| rowspan="2" | 3100
| 30
|[[File:Ernakulam WDM3D.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDG-3A
| 23
|[[File:ERS WDG3A.jpg|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDP-4D
| 4500
| 15
|[[File:ERS WDP4D.jpg|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total locomotives active as of May 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=IRFCA|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named}}</ref>||68
|
|}

== See also ==
*[[Electric Loco Shed, Arakkonam]]
*[[Electric Loco Shed, Erode]]
*[[Electric Loco Shed, Royapuram]]
*[[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode]]
*[[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock]]
*[[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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{{Thiruvananthapuram railway division}}

[[Category:Railway depots in India|ERNAKULAM]]
[[Category:Transport in Ernakulam district]]
[[Category:Thiruvananthapuram railway division]]
[[Category:1981 establishments in Kerala]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam

2023-03-19T11:44:24Z

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{{Short description|Loco shed in Kerala, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam
| image = File:ERS WDM3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.5
| image_width =
| image_alt = 
| caption = ERS based WDM-3A twins hauling Porbandar–Kochuveli Express
| location = Karshaka Road, [[Kadavanthra]], [[Kochi]], [[Kerala]], India
| coordinates = {{Coord|9.9733|76.2910|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = ERS
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1981|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads =
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]] [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG-3A]] [[Indian locomotive class WDP-4|WDP-4D]]
| former_rolling_stock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]] [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS-6]]
| routes =
| map_type = India Kerala
| map_size = 200
}}
'''Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam''' is a [[motive power depot]] performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for diesel locomotives of the [[Indian Railways]], located at {{stnlnk|Ernakulam Junction}} (ERS) of the [[Southern Railway zone]] in the city of [[Kochi]], [[Kerala]]. It is one of the four diesel loco sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet|Tondiarpet]] (TNP) at Chennai, [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]] (GOC) at Trichy and the only locomotive shed in Kerala and the southernmost loco shed in India.

[[File:ERS DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of Kerala Culture '''Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam''']]

== History ==
Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at {{stnlnk|Kollam Junction}} (QLN) and {{stnlnk|Shoranur Junction}} (SRR) until the late 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|publisher=IRFCA|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> 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 Ernakulam Diesel locomotive shed was established in the year 1981<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Ernakulam.pdf|title=Ernakulam Diesel Loco Shed|website=indianrailways.gov.in|publisher=Indian Railways|access-date=13 December 2016}}</ref> to meet these ends and the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Trivandrum to Mangalore and Palakkad with the completion of gauge conversion of the [[Ernakulam–Kottayam–Kayamkulam line|Ernakulam – Kottayam – Kayamkulam line.]] The steam sheds at SRR and QLN were subsequently decommissioned.

Initially, the shed handed only [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]] and [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS6]] class locomotives, but gradually were allocated WDM3As, WDG3As and for a short time, was the only loco shed in the country to have [[Indian locomotive class WDM-7|WDM7]] locomotives allocated to its roster. The first loco to be homed at ERS was a WDS6 with road number #36012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://irfca.org/apps/locos/show/7005?page=8|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster-Ernakulam (ERS)-WDS-6 36012 Show|publisher=IRFCA|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> The last WDM-2 (18701) was removed from service in June 2019 after being in the shed for 38 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/Traction/2019/Diesel_Loco_Availabilty_Target_June-2019.pdf|title=june holding}}</ref> The shed received its First HHP loco [[EMD GT46PAC|WDP-4D]](40114) from GOC in December 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiarailinfo.com/station/blog/ernakulam-diesel-loco-shed-dls-ers/12799#st|title = Ernakulam Diesel Loco Shed Railway Station Forum/Discussion – Railway Enquiry}}</ref>

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

Locomotives of Ernakulam DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Kerala until around the year 2000 when widespread electrification of railway lines started in Kerala. Until then it handled prestigious trains like the double-headed [[Kerala Express]] and the [[Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express|Trivandrum Rajdhani]] Express. ERS 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, ERS started losing links to [[electric locomotive]]s, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP-1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]], WAG-7 and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds. Ironically, the [[Thiruvananthapuram railway division]] in which ERS is located has 100% electrified lines.

Despite all the electrification across the country, ERS locomotives still take trains as far as Gujarat, Bikaner and in the Shornur–Nilambur line of Kerala. The [[Ernakulam–Okha Express]] runs with two ERS locomotives in multiple unit operation. The 12201/12202 [[Kochuveli–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Garib Rath Express|LTT–Kochuveli Garib Rath]] is the only ERS link running south of Ernakulam. A prestigious link for ERS was the [[Dadar–Madgaon Jan Shatabdi Express]] which was regularly hauled by an ERS WDM-3A for a long time.

== Livery and markings ==
Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Ernakulam's locomotives have their current livery scheme as painted in orange with a wide cream band around the middle, with orange lines on the top and bottom, to match with the erstwhile Rajdhani livery. The livery was introduced to match that of the Trivandrum Rajdhani when it was introduced sometime in 1997 as ERS considered the Rajdhani its most prestigious link. The cream bar and the orange line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design. This orange–cream–orange color scheme gives the locomotives a cheerful and pleasant look. One locomotive, WDM-3A #16666 was for a short time painted in an experimental light green–cream–light green scheme. Originally, the livery scheme of the Ernakulam shed was yellow at the top and spinach-green at the bottom.

== Closure controversy ==
In October 2013, Southern Railways submitted a proposal to the railway board to shut down the Ernakulam DLS and convert it into an electric loco shed. Employees at the loco shed, later joined in by the public and people's representatives protested against this decision, alleging a plan to move the shed to Mangalore, demanding the ELS should be established without closing the DLS as it was the only major railway establishment in Kerala. After protests got much popular support, Southern Railway backed down from its move to close the shed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.railnews.co.in/railway-staff-protest-move-to-close-down-diesel-loco-shed/|title=Railway staff protest move to close down diesel loco shed at Ernakulam – RailNews Media India Ltd|website=www.railnews.co.in|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/diesel-loco-shed-likely-to-be-closed/article5216184.ece|title=Diesel loco shed likely to be closed|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
! Images
|-
| 1.
| WDM-3A
| rowspan="2" | 3100
| 30
|[[File:Ernakulam WDM3D.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDG-3A
| 23
|[[File:ERS WDG3A.jpg|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDP-4D
| 4500
| 15
|[[File:ERS WDP4D.jpg|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total locomotives active as of May 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=IRFCA|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named}}</ref>||68
|
|}

== See also ==
*[[Electric Loco Shed, Arakkonam]]
*[[Electric Loco Shed, Erode]]
*[[Electric Loco Shed, Royapuram]]
*[[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode]]
*[[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock]]
*[[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Thiruvananthapuram railway division}}

[[Category:Railway depots in India|ERNAKULAM]]
[[Category:Transport in Ernakulam district]]
[[Category:Thiruvananthapuram railway division]]
[[Category:1981 establishments in Kerala]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet

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Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet

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{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet
| image = File:TNP WDM3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.25
| image_alt = 
| caption = Tondiarpet based WDM-3A hauling Brindavan Express skipping Baiyappanahalli
| location = [[Tondiarpet]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| map_type = India Tamil Nadu
| coordinates = {{coord |13.1268|N|80.2815|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN-TN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = TNP
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1972|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM 2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG 3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDS-6|WDS 6]]
| routes = 
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''' is a [[motive power depot]] performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for [[diesel locomotive]]s of the [[Indian Railways]]. It is located near [[Tondiarpet railway station]] (TNP) of the [[Southern Railway zone]] in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu<ref name="irmedsl">{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="oneof">{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> and is one of the four diesel loco sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS) at [[Kochi]], [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]] (GOC) at Trichy.
[[File:TNP DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of flying Columbidae '''Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet''']]

== History and developments ==
On 25 December 1971, the then [[Railway Minister of India|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiya]], laid the foundation stone for the loco shed. After four years of construction, it was finally opened in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}. It initially homed [[YDM-4]] class [[Meter gauge|MG]] locomotives, and was once expanded in 1993 to hold [[Broad Gauge]] locomotives and again in 2000 to accommodate more than 100 locos.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

Tondiarpet diesel loco shed is located to the north of the station. The diesel shed was commissioned in October 1972. Earlier a steam shed used to exist with 14 [[Indian locomotive class WG|WG]] locomotives, but this shed was decommissioned and subsequently demolished to make way for the diesel shed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2016-12-13}}</ref> The new diesel shed got a batch of [[Indian locomotive class WDS-4|WDS-4B]] [[diesel locomotive]]s as its first locomotives. These locomotives were used for shunting in the [[Tondiarpet marshalling yard|marshalling yard at Tondiarpet]], the goods sheds at [[Royapuram]], [[Salt Cotaurs]], and the coaching depot at [[Basin Bridge]] in Chennai division.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19221 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6460?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=2&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway (10)|url=https://www.irfca.org/gallery/imagebank/Railway%20_10_.jpg.html|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Tondiarpet, Chennai (TNP) WDS-4 19533 Show|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/show/6772?authenticity_token=tQA8idQNFtbONxDCXWCdkpt3ruRKE8Of6h4+jGSH6tw=&page=3&shed_id=88|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref> later the number of WDS-4B locomotives was increased to 64 for meeting increasing demand in [[Tiruchirappalli railway division|Trichi]], [[Palakkad railway division|Palakkad]], [[Bangalore railway division|Bangalore]], [[Thiruvananthapuram railway division|Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Mysore railway division|Mysore]] divisions and [[Integral Coach Factory|ICF]], [[Perambur railway station|Perambur]]. As the WDS-4 fleet began to reach the end of their serviceable life, WDM-7 locomotives were transferred from Ernakulam and put into service on both passenger and yard shunting work. In April 2007, mainline WDM2-model from Erode locomotives were additionally inducted for hauling goods. Now the shed holds X WDM-2, Y WDG-3A, Z WDM-3A, X WDS-6 and 14 WDM-7

The shed has a total area of 75,000 sq m, including a covered area of 6,652 sq m, has a capacity of 50 locomotives. The shed employs about 378 persons.<ref name="india railways tondiarpet">{{cite web|title=Brief history of Diesel shed Tondiarpet|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Tondiarpet.pdf|date=1 July 2010|publisher=Indian Railways|access-date=1 Dec 2012}}</ref>

== Operations ==
The shed, headed by Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Diesel), has about 750 employees in different ranks in the day-to-day operations of the shed, which include periodical overhaul, maintenance and repair works.<ref name=dsldme>{{cite web|title=Chapter 2 : Assessment, Procurement/ Production, Utilisation and Maintenance of Locomotives in Indian Railways |url=http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |work=[[Comptroller and Auditor General of India]] |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201231141/http://www.cag.gov.in/reports/railways/2003_9/chapter2.htm |archive-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> The locos of this shed were thoroughly traverses over entire South India for passenger and freight services.<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref> Like all locomotive sheds, TNP does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at TNP but to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair.

Locomotives of Tondiarpet DLS along with Erode and Golden Rock DLS were the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu, even though widespread electrification of railway lines started in Tamil Nadu. TNP locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Konkan Railway]] as well. As more and more railway lines in Tamil Nadu were electrified, TNP started losing links to [[electric locomotive]]s, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP-1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]], [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locomotives from the Erode (ED), Arakkonam (AJJ) and Royapuram (RPM) electric locomotive sheds. Despite all the electrification across the country, TNP locomotives still take trains as far as Gujarat, Bikaner and in the Shornur- Nilambur line of Kerala.

== Livery and markings ==
Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Tondiarpet's locomotives have their current livery scheme painted in light blue with a wide cream band around the middle, with dark blue lines on the top and bottom, to match with the ICF livery. The dark blue bar and the light blue line taper downwards at both ends of the locomotive to create a "V" shaped design. This orange-cream-orange color scheme gives the locomotives a cheerful and pleasant look. One locomotive, WDM-7A #11008 is in an experimental light green-cream-light green scheme.

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!IMAGE
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 2
|
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
|rowspan="2"| 3100
| 20
|[[File:TNP WDM3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 5
|
|-
| 4.
| WDM-7
| 2000
| 15
|
[[File:ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ, ബ്രോഡ് ഗേജ്.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 6.
| WDS-4
|700
| 1
| [[File:Diesel hydraulic loco.JPG|frameless|217x217px]]
|-
| 5.
| WDS-6
| 1400
| 13
|[[File:TNP WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2021'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||56
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}

{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Chennai}}

[[Category:Chennai railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|T]]
[[Category:1972 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Chennai]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock

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{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock
| image = File:GOC WDG-3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.5
| image_alt = 
| caption = GOC based WDG-3A hauling Punalur Express.
| location = [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|10.7932|78.7107|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = GOC
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1975|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDP-3A|WDP-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-4|WDG-4]] and [[Indian locomotive class WDP-4|WDP-4]]
| routes =
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock''' is an [[engine shed]] located in [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in [[India]]. It is located north of [[Golden Rock railway station]], falling under [[Tiruchirappalli railway division]]. It is the largest of the four locomotive shed under the [[Southern Railway zone]] of [[Indian Railways]] the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet|Tondiarpet]] (TNP), [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS).<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref><ref name=dsllarge>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Golden Rock Loco Shed named the best|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/golden-rock-loco-shed-named-the-best/article4952208.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 July 2013}}</ref>
[[File:GOC DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of Trichy Malaikottai Temple '''Diesel Loco Shed, Ponmalai Golden Rock''']]

== History and developments ==
The foundation stone for the shed was laid on the 25th of December, 1971 by the then [[Minister of Railways (India)|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiah|K Hanumanthaiya]]. The shed was open for operations in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

The shed initially homed 45 of the [[Indian locomotive class YDM-4|YDM-4]] class [[Metre-gauge railway|metre gauge locomotives]]. Three subsequent expansions were taken up which resulted in the holding capacity being increased to 100 metre gauge locomotives (1998), 40 [[Broad-gauge railway|broad gauge]] locomotives (1993) and 100 broad gauge locomotives (2000).<ref name="dslgoc" />

== Infrastructure ==
The shed was started as a metre gauge shed. However with expansion over time, the bays and catwalks were converted from metre gauge to broad gauge standards to home broad gauge locomotives. Later, the shed went for a major expansion of its bays at a cost of {{INRConvert|14|c}} to undertake maintenance activity for the unconventionally longer high-speed 4,000–[[Horsepower|Hp]] and 4,500–Hp [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]] locos, which were homed since July 2011, thus becoming the first-of-its-kind shed in India to maintain such high powered locos, which were extensively utilised for both passenger and freight services.<ref>{{Cite news|title = New bays opened at Golden Rock Diesel Loco Shed|date = 2 January 2014|url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/new-bays-opened-at-golden-rock-diesel-loco-shed/article5529084.ece|work = [[The Hindu]]|location = [[Tiruchi]]|access-date = 8 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=dslstr>{{cite news|title=New broad gauge bay inaugurated at Golden Rock workshop|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/New-broad-gauge-bay-inaugurated-at-Golden-Rock-workshop/articleshow/28302697.cms|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=3 January 2014}}</ref> The shed also houses a Diesel Traction and Training Centre (DTTC), opened on 7 April 1988, to impart theoretical and practical training for the newly recruited Assistant [[Engine driver|Loco Pilots]], Engineers and other technical staffs. The centre only one of its kind in the zone also conducts periodical refresher courses for the in-service staffs of [[Indian Railways]],<ref name=dsllarge/> and also too railway personnels from other countries.<ref name=sudan>{{cite news|title=Goldenrock training programme a hit with Sudan railway staff|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225085825/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 February 2006|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=17 February 2006}}</ref><ref name=angola>{{cite news|title=Divisional Training Centres to come up|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/divisional-training-centres-to-come-up/article3169327.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 March 2006}}</ref> The DTTC along with Zonal Railway Training Institute (ZRTI), Trichy made a mark by imparting training to women, by which Narayana Vadivu and Jhansi Rani, became the first all women loco crew in the history of Southern Railway zone piloting a goods train on the [[Chord Line, Tamil Nadu|chord line]].<ref name=womancrew>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Southern Railway deploys women to pilot goods train|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/southern-railway-deploys-women-to-pilot-goods-train/article5184091.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 September 2013}}</ref>

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

Locomotives of Golden Rock shed are the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu. GOC locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Southern Railway zone]] .
It currently has a link of 75 Diesel locos and handles prestigious trains like the [[Amritha Express]] & [[Ajmer–Rameswaram Humsafar Express|Humsafar express]], [[Boat Mail]] and [[Rameswaram–Faizabad Shraddha Sethu Express|Shraddha Sethu Express]], fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.
Being one of the four diesel engine sheds in Southern Railway under the territory of [[Salem railway division]],<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering – Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=[[Railway Board]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123102242/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us |url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494 |work=[[Southern Railway zone]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494 |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!Image
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 3
|[[File:The WDM-2 class Locomotive of Indian Railways.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
| rowspan="2" | 3100/3300
| 17
|[[File:Kuttipuram.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 42
|[[File:BMO - HYB Pass. (27731632662).jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 4.
| WDM-3D
| 3300
| 8
|[[File:GOC WDG3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 5.
| WDP-3A
| 3100
| 7
|[[File:GOC WDP3A.jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 6.
| WDG-4/4D
| rowspan="2"| 4500
| 35
|[[File:PUNE WDG-4 (22194947195).jpg|WDG-4|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| 7.
| WDP-4B/4D
| 40
|[[File:GOC WDP4D.jpg|alt=|frameless|WDP-4]]
|-
| 8.
| WDS-6
| rowspan="2"| 1400
| 2
|[[File:GOC WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 9.
| YDM-4
| 5
|[[File:ரயில் பாலம், புனலுறு.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||159
|
|}

== Awards ==
The shed was adjudged the best shed among in the Southern Railway zone during 2012–2013. Also it won the "Performance Efficiency Shield" for the fifth time, since its inception in 2004–2005.<ref name=dsllarge/><ref name=dslstr/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}
{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Tiruchirappalli}}

[[Category:Trichy railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|GOLDEN]]
[[Category:1975 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Tiruchirappalli]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock

2023-03-19T10:57:33Z

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{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock
| image = File:GOC WDG-3A.jpg
| image_upright = 1.5
| image_alt = 
| caption = GOC based WDG-3A hauling Punalur Express.
| location = [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|10.7932|78.7107|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = GOC
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1975|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A|WDG-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDP-3A|WDP-3A]], [[Indian locomotive class WDG-4|WDG-4]] and [[Indian locomotive class WDP-4|WDP-4]]
| routes =
}}

'''Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock''' is an [[engine shed]] located in [[Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in [[India]]. It is located north of [[Golden Rock railway station]], falling under [[Tiruchirappalli railway division]]. It is the largest of the four locomotive shed under the [[Southern Railway zone]] of [[Indian Railways]] the others being at [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet|Tondiarpet]] (TNP), [[Diesel Loco Shed, Erode|Erode]] (ED) and [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam|Ernakulam]] (ERS).<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering - Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board |access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214324/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date= 2 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494|work=[[Southern Railway zone]]|access-date=19 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494|archive-date=24 April 2016}}</ref><ref name=dsllarge>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Golden Rock Loco Shed named the best|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/golden-rock-loco-shed-named-the-best/article4952208.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 July 2013}}</ref>
[[File:GOC DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of Trichy Rockfort Temple '''Diesel Loco Shed, Ponmalai Golden Rock''']]

== History and developments ==
The foundation stone for the shed was laid on the 25th of December, 1971 by the then [[Minister of Railways (India)|Railway Minister]], [[K. Hanumanthaiah|K Hanumanthaiya]]. The shed was open for operations in 1975 with a total area of {{convert|169000|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}} and covered area of {{convert|19600|sqm|m2|lk=in|sigfig=2}}.<ref name=dslgoc>{{cite web|title=Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock - About |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=Railway Board|access-date=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063031/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/goldenrock.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2015}}</ref>

The shed initially homed 45 of the [[Indian locomotive class YDM-4|YDM-4]] class [[Metre-gauge railway|metre gauge locomotives]]. Three subsequent expansions were taken up which resulted in the holding capacity being increased to 100 metre gauge locomotives (1998), 40 [[Broad-gauge railway|broad gauge]] locomotives (1993) and 100 broad gauge locomotives (2000).<ref name="dslgoc" />

== Infrastructure ==
The shed was started as a metre gauge shed. However with expansion over time, the bays and catwalks were converted from metre gauge to broad gauge standards to home broad gauge locomotives. Later, the shed went for a major expansion of its bays at a cost of {{INRConvert|14|c}} to undertake maintenance activity for the unconventionally longer high-speed 4,000–[[Horsepower|Hp]] and 4,500–Hp [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]] locos, which were homed since July 2011, thus becoming the first-of-its-kind shed in India to maintain such high powered locos, which were extensively utilised for both passenger and freight services.<ref>{{Cite news|title = New bays opened at Golden Rock Diesel Loco Shed|date = 2 January 2014|url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/new-bays-opened-at-golden-rock-diesel-loco-shed/article5529084.ece|work = [[The Hindu]]|location = [[Tiruchi]]|access-date = 8 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=dslstr>{{cite news|title=New broad gauge bay inaugurated at Golden Rock workshop|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/New-broad-gauge-bay-inaugurated-at-Golden-Rock-workshop/articleshow/28302697.cms|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=3 January 2014}}</ref> The shed also houses a Diesel Traction and Training Centre (DTTC), opened on 7 April 1988, to impart theoretical and practical training for the newly recruited Assistant [[Engine driver|Loco Pilots]], Engineers and other technical staffs. The centre only one of its kind in the zone also conducts periodical refresher courses for the in-service staffs of [[Indian Railways]],<ref name=dsllarge/> and also too railway personnels from other countries.<ref name=sudan>{{cite news|title=Goldenrock training programme a hit with Sudan railway staff|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060225085825/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/17/stories/2006021708430200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 February 2006|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=17 February 2006}}</ref><ref name=angola>{{cite news|title=Divisional Training Centres to come up|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/divisional-training-centres-to-come-up/article3169327.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=25 March 2006}}</ref> The DTTC along with Zonal Railway Training Institute (ZRTI), Trichy made a mark by imparting training to women, by which Narayana Vadivu and Jhansi Rani, became the first all women loco crew in the history of Southern Railway zone piloting a goods train on the [[Chord Line, Tamil Nadu|chord line]].<ref name=womancrew>{{cite news|last=R. Rajaram|title=Southern Railway deploys women to pilot goods train|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/southern-railway-deploys-women-to-pilot-goods-train/article5184091.ece|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 September 2013}}</ref>

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

Locomotives of Golden Rock shed are the regular links for all trains running through Tamil Nadu. GOC locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[Southern Railway zone]] .
It currently has a link of 75 Diesel locos and handles prestigious trains like the [[Amritha Express]] & [[Ajmer–Rameswaram Humsafar Express|Humsafar express]], [[Boat Mail]] and [[Rameswaram–Faizabad Shraddha Sethu Express|Shraddha Sethu Express]], fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.
Being one of the four diesel engine sheds in Southern Railway under the territory of [[Salem railway division]],<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering – Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |work=[[Indian Railways]] |publisher=[[Railway Board]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123102242/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us |url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494 |work=[[Southern Railway zone]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494 |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=allarea>{{cite news|last=J Arockiaraj|title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235925/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-06/madurai/41832992_1_locomotives-madurai-railway-division-v-ajithkumar|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 September 2013}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!Image
|-
| 1.
| WDM-2
| 2600
| 3
|[[File:The WDM-2 class Locomotive of Indian Railways.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDM-3A
| rowspan="2" | 3100/3300
| 17
|[[File:Kuttipuram.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDG-3A
| 42
|[[File:BMO - HYB Pass. (27731632662).jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 4.
| WDM-3D
| 3300
| 8
|[[File:GOC WDG3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 5.
| WDP-3A
| 3100
| 7
|[[File:GOC WDP3A.jpg|border|frameless|alt=]]
|-
| 6.
| WDG-4/4D
| rowspan="2"| 4500
| 35
|[[File:PUNE WDG-4 (22194947195).jpg|WDG-4|alt=|frameless]]
|-
| 7.
| WDP-4B/4D
| 40
|[[File:GOC WDP4D.jpg|alt=|frameless|WDP-4]]
|-
| 8.
| WDS-6
| rowspan="2"| 1400
| 2
|[[File:GOC WDS6.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 9.
| YDM-4
| 5
|[[File:ரயில் பாலம், புனலுறு.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of May 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named|title = IRFCA}}</ref>||159
|
|}

== Awards ==
The shed was adjudged the best shed among in the Southern Railway zone during 2012–2013. Also it won the "Performance Efficiency Shield" for the fifth time, since its inception in 2004–2005.<ref name=dsllarge/><ref name=dslstr/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
* {{Official website|http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/|name=Southern Railway zone}}
{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}
{{Transport in Tiruchirappalli}}

[[Category:Trichy railway division|*]]
[[Category:Railway depots in India|GOLDEN]]
[[Category:1975 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Rail transport in Tiruchirappalli]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Erode

2023-03-19T10:55:46Z

2401:4900:1CE3:3D5:F8EE:4656:166:2824:

{{Short description|Loco shed in Tamilnadu, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2018}}
{{Infobox railway depot
| name = Diesel Loco Shed, Erode
| image = File:Erode WDM3D.jpg
| image_width =
| image_upright = 1.25
| image_alt =
| caption = Erode based WDM-3D #11453
| location = Erode–Chennimalai Road, [[Erode]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
| coordinates = {{Coord|11.3249|77.7174|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| owner = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Southern Railway zone]]
| depotcode = ED(D)
| type = [[Engine shed]]
| opened = {{Start date and age|1966|9|df=y}}
| closed = 
| original =
| pregrouping =
| postgrouping =
| roads = 6
| rollingstock = [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3D|WDM 3D]], [[WDM3A]] , [[WDG3A]] , [[WAP1]] , [[WAP4]] , [[WAG5]] , [[WAG7]]
| routes = 
}}
'''Diesel Loco Shed, Erode''' is an [[engine shed]] located on Erode–Chennimalai road in [[Erode]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India. Being closely located to [[Erode Junction railway station|Erode Junction Railway Station]], the shed falls under [[Salem railway division]] of [[Southern Railway zone]].

[[File:ED DLS Logo.jpg|thumb|centre|150px|Logo of flowing Deer '''Diesel Loco Shed, Erode''']]

== History ==
The shed was opened and became operationally active since September 1966, spreading over a total area of {{convert|59457.9 |sqm|m2|sigfig=2|disp=out}} and covered area of {{convert|7454|sqm|m2|sigfig=2|disp=out}}. <ref name="shed">{{cite web|title=Sheds and Workshops – Southern Railway |url=http://irfca.org/faq/faq-shed.html |publisher=[[IRFCA]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606191131/http://irfca.org/faq/faq-shed.html |archive-date= 6 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="dlsed">{{cite web|title=Erode Diesel loco shed profile|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Erode.pdf|publisher=[[Indian Railways]]|access-date=24 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321070757/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/mec_engg/downloads/DLS/SR/Erode.pdf|archive-date=21 March 2016}}</ref>

== Operations ==
Being one of the four diesel engine sheds in Southern Railway under the territory of [[Salem railway division]],<ref name=irmedsl>{{cite web|title=Mechanical Engineering – Diesel Loco Sheds, Southern Railway |url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,713,723 |publisher=[[Indian Railways]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123102242/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C366%2C541%2C713%2C723 |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=oneof>{{cite web|title=About us |url=http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,374,492,494 |publisher=[[Southern Railway zone]] |access-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424084130/http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1%2C304%2C374%2C492%2C494 |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> various major and minor maintenance schedules of diesel locomotives are being carried out here. Apart from serving the [[Salem railway division|parent division]], the locos belonging to the shed also serves the unelectrified routes of [[Madurai railway division]], in addition to locos from [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock|Golden Rock]]. To provide space for electric locomotives, all the EMDs (WDG-4 and WDP-4D), WDM-3A and WDG-3A were transferred to Golden Rock.<ref name="overh">{{cite news|last1=Arockiaraj J |title=Locomotive failures affecting train operations in Madurai division |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Locomotive-failures-affecting-train-operations-in-Madurai-division/articleshow/22353454.cms? |access-date=24 November 2016 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=6 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124030305/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Locomotive-failures-affecting-train-operations-in-Madurai-division/articleshow/22353454.cms |archive-date=24 November 2016 |location=Madurai |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Locomotives ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! SN
! Locomotives
! HP
! Quantity
!Image
|-
| 1.
| WDM-3A
| 3100
| 2
|[[File:ED WDM3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 2.
| WDG-3A
| 3100
| 1
|[[File:KYN WDG3A.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 3.
| WDM-3D
| 3300
| 45
|[[File:ERODE WDM3D.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 4.
| WAP-1
| 3800
| 27
|[[File:AJJ WAP1.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 5.
| WAG-5
| 3850
| 24
|[[File:AJJ WAG5 TWINS.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| 6.
| WAG-7
| 5350
| 28
|[[File:AJJ WAG7.jpg|frameless]]
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total locomotives active as of June 2022'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Railway Website Mechanical Department|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717|access-date=16 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=IRFCA|url=https://www.irfca.org/apps/locos/list?list_type=named}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=e-Locos|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/holding.html}}</ref>||127
|
|}

== See also ==
* [[Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam]]
* [[Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock]]
* [[Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

== External links ==
* {{Official Website|http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/|name=Railway Board}}
{{Commons category}}

{{Locomotives Sheds of India}}

[[Category:Railway depots in India|ERODE]]
[[Category:Salem railway division|*]]
[[Category:Transport in Erode]]
[[Category:1966 establishments in Madras State]]

Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet

2023-03-19T10:47:03Z

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