Electric Loco Shed, Santragachi
Electric Loco Shed, Santragachi is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Santragachhi of the South Eastern Railway zone in West Bengal, India. It is one of the five electric loco sheds in SER others being at Bondamunda (BNDM), Bokaro Steel City (BKSC), Rourkela (ROU) and Tatanagar (TATA).
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  Location within West Bengal | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Santragachhi, West Bengal, India |
| Coordinates | 22°35′N 88°16′E / 22.583°N 88.267°ECoordinates: 22°35′N 88°16′E / 22.583°N 88.267°E |
| Characteristics | |
| Owner | Indian Railways |
| Operator | South Eastern Railways |
| Depot code | SRC |
| Type | Engine shed |
| Rolling stock | WAP-7 WAP-4 WDG-4 WDS-6 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1999 |
History
After South Eastern 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 were decommissioned.[1] To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from West Bengal and Jharkhand to rest of India the Santragachi was selected by Indian Railways for a new electric locomotive shed.[2]
In the late 1999 the SRC ELS started its operations with 6 WAP-4. The new locomotive class WAP-7 were introduced on 13 November 2017.[3]
Operations
Livery and Markings
Locomotives
References
- ↑ "Report of the Expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Electric loco shed location". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ "Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list" (PDF).