Diesel Loco Shed, Abu Road

Diesel Loco Shed, Abu Road

File:ABR WDM3A 16030.jpg Abu Road based WDM-3A
Location within Rajasthan
Location
Location	Abu Road, Rajasthan
Coordinates	24°28′51″N 72°47′07″E
Characteristics
Owner	Indian Railways
Operator	North Western Railway zone
Depot code	ABR
Type	Diesel Locomotives
Roads	5
Rolling stock	WDM-2 WDG-3A WDM-3A WDG-4 WDP-4D WDG-4D
Routes served	North Western Railway zone, Jaipur-Ahmedabad line
History
Opened	26 October 1966 (1966-10-26)

Diesel Loco Shed, Abu Road is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for diesel locomotive of the Indian Railways, located at Abu Road railway station (ABR) in Abu Road city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is one of the two diesel loco sheds of the North Western Railway zone, the other being at Bhagat ki Kothi (BGKT).

History

The diesel shed was commissioned on 26 October 1966. It was the biggest Metre Gauge diesel shed of Western Railway at that time with a holding of 112 YDM-4 Locomotives. With broad gauge conversion of Mahesana to Ajmer route, conversion of the shed to a broad gauge Shed with a holding of 60 locos was planned. The last mtre gauge locomotive was given a ceremonial send off on 15 February 1996.The first broad gauge locomotive of the shed was commissioned on 12 April 1997. Since then the holding rapidly increased to a full capacity of 60 locomotives by March 1998. The 60th locomotive was flagged off 9 March 1998.

WDG-3A locomotives were first commissioned & homed in 1998‐99. Work for augmentation of homing capacity of shed from 60 to 120 locomotive was completed in March 2003.

General information

Commissioning of Shed	26 October 1966
Conversion of Metre gauge to broad gauge started	12 April 1997
Conversion completed	9 March 1998
No.of locomotives in Mail/Express	50
No.of locomotives in Goods	41
Total Area of Shed	Approx. 1,10,000 Sq Meters
Covered Area	Approx.20,000Sq.Meters

Infrastructure

L.R.Bay	3 Bays of 2.5 loco length with pendant operation overhead crane of 3 tonne capacity
New L.R.Bay	2 Bays of 3 loco length with 5 tonne over head crane.
H.R.Bay	One bay of 4 loco length with two 35 Tonne over head crane.
Under floor pit wheel lathe	One of HYT make
Whiting jack	1 set of 35 tonne capacity 1set of 25 tonne capacity
Forklifter/Lister	04 nos.
Roadcrane	1 no
E.T.P.	Capacity‐ 3000ltrs per hr.
Spectrograph M/C	One no.
Fuel installation	Two tanks of total 310 KL capacity Installed by IOC
Lube oil installation	Three tanks (70KL) of total 210 KL capacity Installed by IOC
Incinerator	One incinerator of capacity 100 kg per hour

Operations

Like all locomotive sheds, Abu Road does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. It not only attends to locomotives housed at Abu Road but also to ones coming in from other sheds as well. It has four pit lines for loco repair.

Locomotives of Abu Road shed along with Bhagat ki Kothi shed are the regular links for all trains running through Rajasthan. Abu Road locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling on the North Western Railway zone as well. As more and more railway lines were electrified, ABR started losing links to electric locomotives, mainly WAP4 and WAG7 locomotives from nearby electric locomotive sheds. The Shed maintains a passenger link of 50 locomotives, which includes among others the prestigious like the Yoga Express & Garib Rath Express, Jaisalmer–Jodhpur Express, Rajasthan Humsafar Express, Fast passengers trains and Link Express trains.

Livery and markings

Indian Railways allows diesel loco sheds to paint their locomotives in their own unique liveries. Abu Road's locomotives have their current livery scheme painted in blue on the top and bottom with a wide white band around the middle. ing Images

Locomotives

SN	Locomotives	HP	Quantity	Image
1.	WDM-2	2600	3
2.	WDM-3A	3100	53
3.	WDG-3A		10
4.	WDM-3D	3300	7
5.	WDG-4/4D	4000/4500	64
6.	WAP-4	5050	2
7.	WAG-7	5000	2
Total Locomotives Active as of May 2022			137