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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> | 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> | 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. It also holds a single WAM-4 unit<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/Holding_11_19.pdf}}</ref> | ||
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