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After Northern Railway (former, now under North Central 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.<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|language=en}}</ref> To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Uttar Pradesh rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Kanpur 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> | After Northern Railway (former, now under North Central 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.<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|language=en}}</ref> To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Uttar Pradesh rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Kanpur 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> | ||
After the electrification of Mughalsarai(Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar)-Kanpur section in 1965 the shed was established with a holding of 11 imported [[Indian locomotive class WAM-1|WAM-1]] locomotives. In the late 1990s[[Indian locomotive class WAG-2|WAG-2]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAG-4|WAG-4]] which were the last remaining locomotives and which stayed until late 2000, when they we're withdrawn from service/scrapped. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] locos from Jhansi.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list|url=http://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/Holding_11_19.pdf}}</ref> | After the electrification of Mughalsarai(Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar)-Kanpur section in 1965 the shed was established with a holding of 11 imported [[Indian locomotive class WAM-1|WAM-1]] locomotives. In the late 1990s [[Indian locomotive class WAG-2|WAG-2]] and [[Indian locomotive class WAG-4|WAG-4]] which were the last remaining locomotives and which stayed until late 2000, when they we're withdrawn from service/scrapped. It later got a large fleet of [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] locos from Jhansi.<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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