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Monday, April 27, 2026

How many loco sheds are there in India?

 In Indian Railways, there are approximately 100 major Broad Gauge (BG) diesel and electric locomotive sheds, including New Loco shed especially WAP 7, WAG 9, WDG4G/6G and WAG 12

⭐Railway Zone wise (electric and diesel loco shed) broad gauge

1.Central Railways (CR) Mumbai:- Kalyan, Pune, Bhusawal and Ajni Electric loco shed

Kalyan, Pune and Kurla Diesel loco shed

2. Eastern Railways (ER) Kolkata:- Howrah and Asansol Electric loco shed

Andal, Barddhaman, Howrah, Jamalpur and Malda Town Diesel loco shed

3. East Central Railway ((ECR) Hajipur:- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Electric loco shed, formerly Mughalsarai.

Gomoh, Samastipur Electric loco shed,

Patratu, Samastipur diesel loco shed

4. East Coast Railway (ECoR) Bhubaneswar:- Angul Electric loco shed

5. Northern Railway (NR) New Delhi:- Tughlakabad, Ghaziabad and Ludhiana Electric loco shed

Lucknow Alambagh, Ludhiana and Tughlakabad (Delhi) Diesel loco shed

6.North Central Railway (NCR) Prayagraj:- Jhansi and Kanpur Electric loco shed

Jhansi Diesel loco shed

7. North Eastern Railway (NER) Gorakhpur:- Izzatnagar, Gonda Diesel and Electric loco shed

8. North East Frontier Railway Zone (NFR) Maligaon Guwahati:- Siliguri and New Guwahati Electric loco shed.

Siliguri, New Guwahati and Mariani Diesel loco shed

9. North Western Railway (NWR) Jaipur:- Bhagat ki kothi Electric loco shed

Abu Road, Bhagat ki kothi (Jodhpur) Diesel loco shed

10. Southern Railways (SR), Chennai:- Electric loco sheds:- Royapuram (Chennai), Erode and Arakkonam

Diesel loco shed:- Tondiarpet (Chennai), Golden Rock Ponmalai (Trichy), Erode and Ernakulam diesel loco shed

11. South Central Railways (SCR) Secunderabad:- Moula Ali (Hyderabad), Guntakal, Gooty, Kazipet and Vijayawada Diesel loco shed

Lallaguda (Hyderabad) Electric loco shed, Vijayawada, Kazipet, Guntakal and Gooty Electric loco shed

12. South Coast Railway (SCoR) Visakhapatnam:- Visakhapatnam Diesel and Electric loco shed

13. South Eastern Railway (SER), Kolkata (Garden Reach):- Bokaro Steel City, Tatanagar, Santragachi, Bondamunda electric loco shed.

Bondamunda and Kharagpur Diesel loco shed

14. South East Central Railway (SECR) Bilaspur:- Bhilai Electric loco shed.

Raipur Diesel Loco Shed

15. South Western Railways (SWR), Hubli:- Both Krishnarajapuram (Bangalore) and Hubli holds Diesel and Electric loco shed

16. Western Railways (WR) Mumbai:- Vadodara and Valsad Electric loco shed.

17. West Central Railway (WCR) Jabalpur:- Itarsi Electric loco shed.

Itarsi, New Katni, Ratlam Diesel loco shed

Exterior of electric loco shed

Exterior look of diesel loco shed

⭐18. Steam Loco Shed Rewari:- Built in 1893, it is the only surviving steam locomotive shed in India, now it is preserved as rail musuem.

⭐Diesel/Electric New Class Loco shed:

19. WAG-12 electric loco shed- primarily based at Saharanpur, Nagpur, and Sabarmati electric locomotive sheds.

20. WDG-4G/WDG-6G diesel loco shed:- mainly homed at Roza (Northern Railway), Gandhidham, Siliguri, and Gooty diesel loco shed.

21. WDG-5 diesel loco shed:- currently homed at Sabarmati, Gujarat. The only state having WDG 5 locos.

⭐Meter/Narrow Gauge Diesel loco shed

22. Meter Gauge diesel loco shed:- Golden Rock Ponmalai (GOC) YDM 4 and MHOW (Dr. Ambedkar Nagar YDM 4 and Sabarmati YDM4 loco shed

23. Narrow Gauge Diesel loco shed:- Siliguri NDM 6, Kalka ZDM 3, Pathankot ZDM 4-A, Pratapnagar (PRTN) ZDM-5 and NRL (Neral) NDM 1-A loco shed

As of now Indian Railways is focusing on Production of WAP 7, so more electric loco shed likely to be established in future and new varient Freight Electric loco shed class like WAG 9/WAG 12