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 Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Asansol (Howrah) 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 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 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|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 kolkata to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Asansol 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>
-Asansol shed was started in May 1959 by converting a small portion of steam shed with a holding of 45 locos. The imported [[Indian locomotive class WAM-1|WAM-1]] locomotives were based in this shed after commissioning. With the addition of [[WAM-2/3]] locos. imported from Japan, the need for the expansion of this shed was felt and it was expanded to home 80 locos. In the year 1969 by taking some more portion of the steam shed 12 imported mixed locos. from Japan (10 WAM-2 + 2 WAM-3) and 45 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-2|WAG-2]] locos. were added. To give marginal relief to the congestion, the 45 WAG-2s were transferred to MGS shed.
+Asansol shed was started in May 1959 by converting a small portion of steam shed with a holding of 45 locos. The imported [[Indian locomotive class WAM-1|WAM-1]] locomotives were based in this shed after commissioning. With the addition of [[Indian Railways locomotive class WAM-2/3|WAM-2/3]] locos. imported from Japan, the need for the expansion of this shed was felt and it was expanded to home 80 locos. In the year 1969 by taking some more portion of the steam shed 12 imported mixed locos. from Japan (10 WAM-2 + 2 WAM-3) and 45 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-2|WAG-2]] locos. were added. To give marginal relief to the congestion, the 45 WAG-2s were transferred to MGS shed.
 With the introduction of EMU rakes from BHEL and ICF in Calcutta suburban section, 25 WAM-2 locos, which were working in push-pull operation, were converted to main line operation. The original WAM-1/2 locos, having ignitrons for AC-to-DC conversion, were converted to silicon rectifier system in the years 1968 to 1970. CLW started production and the first batch of 10 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-4|WAG-4]] locos were commissioned and based at Asansol shed in 1970. In 1971, CLW started manufacturing [[Indian locomotive class WAM-4|WAM-4]]s which were commissioned at Asansol. Shed was further expanded in 1974 to home 110 locos. which increased to 115 in 1980. With the introduction of air-brake stock, some WAG-4s were converted for dual brake operation. Further facilities were created for maintaining 20 such locos.
-In the late 1995s [[Indian locomotive class WAP-6|WAP-6]] were introduced which stayed until late 2005, when they were transferred to Howrah. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]] locos from howrah. All [[Indian locomotive class WAP-6|WAP-6]] locos from Howrah shed converted to WAP-4 units and transferred here.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/Holding_11_19.pdf}}</ref> The shed also have a few WAM-4 units. All the WAM-4s of this shed are being used for shunting service.
+In the late 1995s [[Indian locomotive class WAP-6|WAP-6]] were introduced which stayed until late 2005, when they were transferred to Howrah. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]] locos from howrah. All [[Indian locomotive class WAP-6|WAP-6]] locos from Howrah shed converted to WAP-4 units and transferred here.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/Holding_11_19.pdf}}</ref> The shed also had a few WAM-4 units. All the WAM-4s of this shed have been transferred to Sealdah shed.
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