Locomotive Sheds and Workshops

Electric Loco shed Asansol Jn. At night.

A shed dedicated to Condemned Locos to take out reuseale parts

A closer look to a condemned TKD WDM 2A

This shed is for Wheel works

A closer view to Ratlam WDM2 at TKD Diesel shed

TKD WDP3 Pushpak at TKD Diesel shed

Old and new livery of TKD at TKD Diesel shed

Dirty fellows queued up to take bath at TKD Diesel shed

Bogies of WDP3 no more in use

Inside the Abu road diesel shed. This is the daily Mmintenance shed.

Another view of the shed. ABR shed is an ISO shed and looked very professional

Condemned locos standing forlonly in a corner of the shed.

Front view of the Abu Road diesel shed. On the left are the daily maintanence sheds, on the right are the periodic overhauling sheds.

Major repair shed. A WDM2 is stripped down in the foreground. In the background, a Shakti is raised by jacks and the bogies removed

View of the sheds. The sign on the pillars in hindi say 'Pakshik, Masik, Vimasik evam Ardhvarshik Nirikshan'. Masik would mean monthly, Ardhvarshik would be half yearly...any ideas what the others mean?

WDM2 16814 is in the process of getting a fresh coat of paint. Right now it is parked in the load testing shed.

!!!!???? Saw this just outside the wheel cutting plant.

Paihyya Kharad Yantra....meaning the wheel cutting plant. Loco wheels are cut here, rather the edges are cut for best grip on the rails.

The hood of 16799 gets a clean up job.

The incinerator at the diesel shed. A lot of waste, even metals are fed in this. The by-product, 'carbon' is washed down with water to reduce pollution and collected in pits. Gaseous by-products escape thru the chimney into the atmosphere.

A WDM2 waits its turn for refuelling. In the meantime, it pollutes the atmosphere around with thick white smoke. In the foreground are solar panels used for heating water for the Distilled Mineral Water plant.

A bunch of electrics line up in the trip shed at Jhansi led by 22301 from Kanpur and 22013 from Ghaziabad.

All the 8 WDM 7's homed at Ernakulam has been transferred to TNP or GOC. All of them except this one have already left. This one was undergoing schedule and could not leave. A strange loco class indeed. All the bigger sheds refused them and finally Er

Short hood view of the last wicket 11010. The shed will miss thier WDM 7's badly. Hope the new masters will use them on better links than use as shunters

Ernakulam shed employees will always love thier WDM 7 loco DL 251 B Engines. Never will they get a chance to lay hand on one of them

Shed position at NKG Car shed.

A view of the DLS and ELS at Allahabad. A host of WAP4s in the background with one WAP5 overpower the five diesels in the foreground.