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 Steam locomotives used to exist at Itarsi until the late 1970s.<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><ref>{{Cite web|title=scan0189.jpg|url=https://www.irfca.org/gallery/Steam/collingwood/scan0189.jpg.html|website=www.irfca.org|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref> After Central Railway (former, now under West Central Railways) set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the steam locomotive sheds were decommissioned.<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|website=INDIAN CULTURE|language=en|access-date=2020-04-29}}</ref> To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Central Madhya Pradesh to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Itarsi 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>
-With the completion of Bhopal-Khandwa Electrification in the year 1990-1991, new electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in July 1991 with 15 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-2|WAG-2]] which stayed until late 2000, when they were withdrawn from service. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAM-4|WAM-4]] locos from [[Electric Loco Shed, Ajni|Ajni]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAG-5|WAG-5]] from other sheds but later some of these were then moved to other sheds and now all WAM-4 are withdrawn from service/scrapped. All [[Indian locomotive class WAG-5|WAG-5]] locos are either transferred to New Katni ELS, Katni DLS and Itarsi DLS or scrapped. New [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locos were acquired in 2018. In November 2020, Itarsi ELS got its first WAG-9 locomotive.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/Holding_11_19.pdf}}</ref>
+With the completion of Bhopal-Khandwa Electrification in the year 1990-1991, new electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in July 1991 with 15 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-2|WAG-2]] which stayed until late 2000, when they were withdrawn from service. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAM-4|WAM-4]] locos from [[Electric Loco Shed, Ajni|Ajni]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAG-5|WAG-5]] from other sheds but later some of these were then moved to other sheds and now all WAM-4 are withdrawn from service/scrapped. All [[Indian locomotive class WAG-5|WAG-5]] locos are either transferred to New Katni ELS, Katni DLS and Itarsi DLS or scrapped. New [[Indian locomotive class WAP-7|WAP-7]] locos were acquired in 2018. In November 2020, Itarsi ELS got its first WAG-9 locomotive.<ref>[https://wcr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1557743669838-Main%20Page.pdf History PDF]</ref><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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