Electric Loco Shed, Kanpur
Electric Loco Shed, Kanpur is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Kanpur of the North Central Railway zone in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the two electric loco sheds in North Central railway zone the other being at Jhansi (JHS).
| File:CNB WAP7 37134.jpg Kanpur based WAP-7 roaming light at Samastipur Jn. | |
  Location within Uttar Pradesh | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| Coordinates | 26°27′19″N 80°19′44″E / 26.455402°N 80.328925°ECoordinates: 26°27′19″N 80°19′44″E / 26.455402°N 80.328925°E |
| Characteristics | |
| Owner | Indian Railways |
| Operator | North Central Railways |
| Depot code | CNB |
| Type | Engine shed |
| Rolling stock | WAM-4 WAP-7 WAG-9 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1965 |
| Former rolling stock | WAP-4 WAG-7 |
HistoryEdit
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.[1] 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.[2]
After the electrification of Mughalsarai(Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar)-Kanpur section in 1965 the shed was established with a holding of 11 imported WAM-1 locomotives. In the late 1990s WAG-2 and WAG-4 which were the last remaining locomotives and which stayed until late 2000, when they we're withdrawn from service/scrapped.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 WAG-7 locos from Jhansi.[3]
OperationsEdit
Being one of the electric engine sheds in North Central Railway, various major and minor maintenance schedules of electric locomotives are carried out here. It has the sanctioned capacity of 175 engine units. Beyond the operating capacity, this shed houses a total of 252 engine units, including 3 WAM-4, 76 WAP-7 and 173 WAG-9. Like all locomotive sheds, CNB does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. CNB locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling to north and east as well. It handled prestigious trains like Bihar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express and Gomti Express.
Livery and MarkingsEdit
CNB has its own stencils which is marked on loco's front and back body. CNB based locos have standardised livery all over India.
LocomotivesEdit
| SN | Type of Loco | HP | Holding | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | WAM-4 | 3640 | 3 | |
| 2. | WAP-7 | 6350 | 76 | |
| 3. | WAG-9 | 6120 | 173 | File:CNB WAG9.jpg |
| Total locomotives active as of 1 May 2022[4] | 252 | |||
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "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).
- ↑ "e-Locos".