Diesel Loco Shed, Abu Road
Location
LocationAbu Road, Rajasthan
Coordinates24°28′51″N 72°47′07″E / 24.4807°N 72.7854°E / 24.4807; 72.7854
Characteristics
OwnerIndian Railways
OperatorNorth Western Railway zone
Depot codeABR
TypeDiesel Locomotives
Roads5
Rolling stockWDM-2
WDG-3A
WDM-3A
WDM-3D
WDG-4/4D
WAP-4
WAG-7
Routes servedNorth Western Railway,
Jaipur-Ahmedabad line
History
Opened26 October 1966; 57 years ago (1966-10-26)

Diesel Loco Shed, Abu Road is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for diesel locomotives 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, the others being at Bhagat ki Kothi.

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

Locomotives

SN Locomotives HP Quantity
1. WDM-3A 3100 46
2. WDG-3A 24
3. WDM-3D 3300 14
4. WDG-4/4D 4000/4500 69
5. WAP-4 5050 8
6. WAG-7 5350 2
Total Locomotives Active as of October 2023[1] 163

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 WAP1, WAP4, WAG7 and WAP7 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.[2][3] ing Images

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "Railway Website Mechanical Department". Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. ^ "[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Abu Road (ABR) WDM-3A 16818 Show". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  3. ^ "[IRFCA] Indian Railways Locomotive Roster Abu Road (ABR) WDM-2 18616 Show". www.irfca.org. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

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