| File:DDU WAG7.jpg DDU based WAG-7 | |
  Location within Uttar Pradesh | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh |
| Coordinates | 25°18′N 83°07′E / 25.3°N 83.12°E |
| Characteristics | |
| Owner | Indian Railways |
| Operator | East Central Railways |
| Depot code | DDU |
| Type | Engine shed |
| Rolling stock | WAP-7 WAG-9 WAG-7 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1969 |
Electric Loco Shed, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Mughalsarai of the East Central Railway zone in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the three electric loco sheds in the ECR the others being at Barauni (BJU) and Gomoh (GMO). As of May 2022 there are locomotives in the Shed.
History
After Eastern Railway (now under East 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.[1] To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad gauge lines from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar (Mughalsarai) was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed.[2] The shed started it's operations in 1969 with a planned allotment of 45 WAG-2 locomotives. The high speed coaching locomotives were introduced in 1993.[3]
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "PDF" (PDF).