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==History== | ==History== | ||
Steam locomotive sheds used to exist in Norther Railways until the late 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed2.html#bgsr|access-date=2016-12-13|website=www.irfca.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=scan0189.jpg|url=https://www.irfca.org/gallery/Steam/collingwood/scan0189.jpg.html|access-date=2020-05-20|website=www.irfca.org}}</ref> After Northern Railway set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the Steam locomotive sheds was decommissioned.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Report of the expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958|url=http://www.indianculture.gov.in/report-expert-committee-coal-consumption-railways-1958|access-date=2020-04-29|website=INDIAN CULTURE}}</ref> To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad gauge lines from Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Ludhiana was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Electric loco shed location|url=http://indiarailinfo.com/station/map/erode-junction-ed/39|access-date=2016-11-23}}</ref> | |||
New Electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in the late 2001 with [[Indian locomotive class WAG-5|WAG-5]] which were transferred from GZB, but after they were transferred to other sheds. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] locos from GZB. It then got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAG-9|WAG-9]] from other sheds. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/Holding_11_19.pdf}}</ref> | |||
==Operations== | ==Operations== | ||
Being one of the three electric engine sheds in Northern Railway, various major and minor maintenance schedules of electric locomotives are carried out here. It has the sanctioned capacity of 150 engine units. Beyond the operating capacity, this shed houses a total of 224 engine units, including 15 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]], 188 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-9|WAG-9]], 20 [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] & 1 [[Indian locomotive class WAM-4|WAM-4]] . Like all locomotive sheds, LDH does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives.{{cn|date=June 2021}} | Being one of the three electric engine sheds in Northern Railway, various major and minor maintenance schedules of electric locomotives are carried out here. It has the sanctioned capacity of 150 engine units. Beyond the operating capacity, this shed houses a total of 224 engine units, including 15 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]], 188 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-9|WAG-9]], 20 [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] & 1 [[Indian locomotive class WAM-4|WAM-4]] . Like all locomotive sheds, LDH does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives.{{cn|date=June 2021}} | ||