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


Locomotives of Abu Road shed along with Bhagat ki Kothi shed are the regular links for all trains running through Rajasthan. Abu Road locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[North Western Railway zone]] as well. As more and more railway lines were electrified, ABR started losing links to electric locomotives, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-1|WAP1]], [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP4]], [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG7]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP7]] locomotives from nearby electric locomotive sheds.  
Locomotives of Abu Road shed along with Bhagat ki Kothi shed are the regular links for all trains running through Rajasthan. Abu Road locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the [[North Western Railway zone]] as well. As more and more railway lines were electrified, ABR started losing links to electric locomotives, mainly [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP4]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG7]] locomotives from nearby electric locomotive sheds.  
The Shed maintains a passenger link of 50 locomotives, which includes among others the prestigious like the [[Yoga Express]] & [[Kathgodam–Jammu Tawi Garib Rath Express|Garib Rath Express]], [[Jaisalmer–Jodhpur Express]], [[Udaipur City–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Rajasthan Humsafar Express|Rajasthan Humsafar Express]], Fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.
The Shed maintains a passenger link of 50 locomotives, which includes among others the prestigious like the [[Yoga Express]] & [[Kathgodam–Jammu Tawi Garib Rath Express|Garib Rath Express]], [[Jaisalmer–Jodhpur Express]], [[Udaipur City–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Rajasthan Humsafar Express|Rajasthan Humsafar Express]], Fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.


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