page_title: Electric Loco Shed, Howrah
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Electric Loco Shed, Howrah / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Route haul map of Howrah Electric Loco shed (WAP 4 Locomotives)
context_page_description: Electric Loco Shed, Howrah is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Howrah of the Eastern Railway zone in West Bengal, India. It is one of the two electric locomotive sheds of the Eastern Railway, the others being at Asansol. As of 1 July 2020 there are 150 locomotives in the shed.
context_section_description: Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Howrah (Howrah) until the late 1970s. After Eastern Railway 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 was decommissioned. To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad gauge lines from kolkata to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Howrah was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed.
  New Electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in the late 2001s with WAP-1 from Ghaziabad which stayed until late 2005, when they were transferred back to Ghaziabad again. It later got a large fleet of WAP-4 locos, but later some of these were then moved to Asansol. All WAP-6 locos from Asansol shed converted to WAP-4 units and transferred here. New WAP-7 locos were acquired in 2011. In October 2019, Howrah ELS got its first WAP-5 locomotive from Varodarra.
  The shed also held a few WAM-4 units. All the WAM-4s of this shed have been retired/withdrawn from service.
caption: Route haul map of Howrah Electric Loco shed
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