Electric Loco Shed, Itarsi

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Electric Loco Shed, Itarsi
Location
LocationItarsi, Madhya Pradesh
Coordinates22°36′29″N 77°46′01″E / 22.608°N 77.767°E / 22.608; 77.767
Characteristics
OwnerIndian Railways
OperatorWest Central Railway zone
Depot codeET
TypeEngine shed
Rolling stockWAP-4
WAP-7
WAG-9
History
Opened1991; 33 years ago (1991) [1]
Former rolling stockWAM-4
WAG-5

Electric Loco Shed, Itarsi is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Itarsi of the West Central Railway zone in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is one of the major Electric loco shed in West Central Railway of the three sheds, others being at Tuglakabad (TKD) and New Katni Jn (NKJ). As of 1 December 2022 there are 171 locomotives in the Shed.[2][3][4]

equilibrium logo of Electric Loco Shed, Itarsi

History[edit]

Steam locomotives used to exist at Itarsi until the late 1970s.[5][6] After Central Railway (former, now under West 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.[7] To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Central Madhya Pradesh to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Itarsi was selected by Indian Railways for a new electric locomotive shed.[8]

With the completion of Bhopal-Khandwa Electrification in the year 1990-1991, new electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in July 1991 with 15 WAG-2 which stayed until late 2000, when they were withdrawn from service. It later got a large fleet of WAM-4 locos from Ajni and WAG-5 from other sheds but later some of these were then moved to other sheds and now all WAM-4 are withdrawn from service/scrapped. All WAG-5 locos are either transferred to New Katni ELS, Katni DLS, Itarsi DLS or scrapped. New WAP-7 locos were acquired in 2018. In November 2020, Itarsi ELS got its first WAG-9 locomotive.[9][10]

Operations[edit]

Being one of the three electric engine sheds in West Central Railway, various major and minor maintenance schedules of electric locomotives are carried out here. It has the sanctioned augmented capacity of 175 locomotives units. Beyond the sactioned capacity, this shed houses a total of 171 engine units, including 19 WAP-4, 55 WAP-7 and 97 WAG-9 and the holding numbers are going to increase in the near future as new locos have been allotted by Railway board to ET shed. Like all locomotive sheds, ET does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives.[11] It handled prestigious trains like the Amarkantak Express[12], Rani Kamlapati-Jabalpur Janshatabdi Express[13], Humsafar Express[14] and many more mail express and superfast trains. It formerly used to hold the largest fleet of WAP-4 locomotives all over the Indian Railways but now a major chunk of the WAP-4 locomotives has been transferred to other sheds.[15]

Livery and Markings[edit]

Itarsi ELS has its own logo and stencils. It is written on loco's body side as well as front & back side. Itarsi WAP-4s can be identified by the mark 'ET' under a equilibrium sign on yellow circle beside the door of the locomotive.

Locomotives[edit]

SN Type of Loco HP Holding Images
1. WAP-4 5350 19 File:ET WAP4 22924.jpg
2. WAP-7 6350 55 File:ET WAP7 37072.jpg
3. WAG-9 6120 97 File:ET WAG9HC.jpg
Total locomotives active as of December 2022[16] 171

Former locomotives[edit]

SN Type of Loco HP Comments Images
1. WAG-5 3850 Moved to DLS/ET[17] File:ET WAG-5.jpg
2. WAM-4 3640 All Scrapped[18] File:ET WAM4.jpg
Total Locomotives Active as of December 2022

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "History Of electric shed Itarsi".
  2. ↑ Bhopal railway division
  3. ↑ West Central Railways zone
  4. ↑ "Electric shed WCR"
  5. ↑ "[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Steam Locomotive Sheds in the 1970s". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "scan0189.jpg". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "Report of the expert Committee on Coal Consumption on Railways, 1958". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Electric loco shed location". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  9. ↑ History PDF
  10. ↑ "Nov 2019 Locomotive Holding list" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "Sheds and Workshops".
  12. ↑ Amarkantak express
  13. ↑ Janshatabdi Express
  14. ↑ Humsafar express
  15. ↑ Transfer of WAP-4 locomotives of Itarsi
  16. ↑ "e-Locos".
  17. ↑ Last WAG-5 of Itarsi Electric Shed transferred to Diesel shed Itarsi
  18. ↑ Last WAM-4 of Electric Loco Shed, Itarsi
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