Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan

Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan
	File:Kalyan WDM3D twins.jpg KYN based WDM3D twins in Tricolour livery.
	Location within Maharashtra
Location
Location	Kalyan, Maharashtra
Coordinates	19°14′06″N 73°08′15″E / 19.234885°N 73.137448°ECoordinates: 19°14′06″N 73°08′15″E / 19.234885°N 73.137448°E
Characteristics
Owner	Indian Railways
Operator	Central Railway zone
Depot code	KYN
Type	Engine shed
Rolling stock	WDM-3D ; WDG-3A ; WDP-3A ; WDG-4D ; WDP-4D
History
Opened	1987; 37 years ago
Former rolling stock	WDM-2 ;

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Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan is an engine shed located in Kalyan, Maharashtra in India. Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan does regular maintenance of Diesel locomotives in Indian Railways. It is now rated as one of the most premier shed of the Indian Railways. It is one of the three loco sheds in Central Railway zone followed by Pune and Kurla. It comes under the Mumbai CR railway division.^[1]^[2]^[3]

File:KYN DLS Logo.jpg

Logo of Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan

Operations[edit]

Being one of the Diesel sheds in Central Railway zone, various major and minor maintenance including washing and painting of locomotives are carried out here. It formerly used to hold the rare locomotive called "Toaster" namely the WDP-3A but now all the locomotives of this class have Been scrapped/withdrawn. KYN diesel shed has also achieved a distinction of being one of very few diesel loco sheds where 100% population of locomotives are fitted microprocessor control system. It has a regular link of diesel locomotives in Konkan Railway zone and in the unelectrified sections of the Central Railway zone.^[4]^[5]

History[edit]

It was inaugurated on 31 January 1987 and was initially planned to home only WDS-6 locomotives. But in the year 1993-94, the pattern of holding changed with the inclusion of 2 WDM-2 locomotives. After then the shed's capacity kept on increasing and now the shed homes some of the best technologically advanced high horsepower locomotives like WDG-4D and WDP-4D.^[6] In 2018 on Mahatma Gandhi jayanti, many locomotives of the shed were painted in Tricolour livery.^[7]

Livery and Markings[edit]

Indian Railways allows all loco sheds to paint the locomotives as they wish. Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan also has its own beautiful colour scheme of Diesel locomotives.^[8] KYN has its own stencils and markings. The shed mainly uses sticker marks to identify that the locomotive belongs to Kalyan shed. A WDP-3A was also painted in Tejas livery for the one and only Mumbai - Karmali Tejas express. ^[9]

Locomotives[edit]

SN	Locomotives	HP	Quantity
1.	WDM-3D	3300	21
2.	WDG-3A	3100	35
3.	WDP-4/4D	4000	19
4.	WDG-4/4D	4500	23
Total locomotives active as of 01-05-2022^[10]^[11]			98

References[edit]

External links[edit]

[1] "Indian Railways".

[2] "Central Railway zone".

[3] "Mumbai CR railway division".

[4] "mechanical engineering".

[5] "IRFCA".

[6] "PDF" (PDF).

[7] "Locomotives painted in Tricolour livery".

[8] "Liveries".

[9] "Twitter".

[10] "Railway website Mechanical department".

[11] "IRFCA LIST OF ALL LOCOS".

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