Electric Loco Shed, Bhilai

Electric Loco Shed, Bhilai is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Bhilai of the South East Central Railway zone in Chhattisgarh, India.

History

New Electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in the 1980s with WAM-4 class. All the WAM-4s of this shed have been retired/withdrawn from service.

Operations

Being one of the two electric loco sheds in South East 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 299 engine units, including 55

WAG-9. Like all locomotive sheds, BIA does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives. BIA locomotives used to be predominantly the regular links for trains traveling to north and south as well.^[1]

Livery & markings

Bhilai WAP-7 locomotive has Goel TMT, GK TMT, Jindal Panther TMT and Shourya TMT advertisements on loco's body side. Bhilai loco shed has its own stencils. It is written in Bold letters in both English and Hindi language.

Locomotives

SN	Type of Loco	HP	Holding
1.	WAP-7	6350	11
2.	WAG-9	6120	271
Total locomotives active as of December 2023^[2]			281

References

^ "Sheds and Workshops". IRFCA. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
^ "e-Locos".

External links

[sheds-1] "Sheds and Workshops". IRFCA. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

[2] "e-Locos".

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