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इलेक्ट्रिक लोको शेड विजयवाड़ा
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**ViewPOSITION**
ELECTRIC LOCO SHED,VIJAYAWADA
Electric Loco shed, Vijayawada was constructed as a part of BZA – MAS RE project to home 100 locos with Initial cost Rs. 2.40 crores, Area: 128800 sq.mts, Covered area: 9504 sq.mts (1981-82). Inaugurated formally on 12th April 1981 by the then Honorable MOSR Shri M.Mallikarjun.
ELECTRIC LOCO HOLDING WAP-4 locos:63 WAG-G locos:36 WAP-7 locos:53 WAG-9 locos:76 THE JOURNEY OF ELS/BZA• 07/03/1980 :Loco no. 21217 (WAM-4)received from CLW/CRJ, First Loco received. • 11/03/1981 : 1st A.C. loco no. 20710 (WAG-1) BIDHAN, rolled out from CLW has been received. This loco was withdrawn from service on 15/12/1998 and has been kept in National Rail Museum, New Delhi. • “Best Stall award” in the Rail Carnival in 1997 & Rail Mela in 1999. • 2004-05, “THE BEST SHED IN INDIAN RAILWAYS” award. • 14/07/2006: Celebrated Silver Jubilee and Shri Ramesh Chandra, the then ML/RB has taken part in the celebrations. • 22/01/2010: ELS/BZA had a rare privilege of organizing CELE’s conference at ELS/BZA. Shri Kulbhushan, the then Advisor Loco/RB has headed the conference and CELE’s of all zonal Railways have participated in it. • Jan. 2012: Holding of ELS/BZA touched 208 which was highest ever by any shed in Indian Railways at that time. ACTIVITIES• Electric Loco Shed Vijayawada is involved in ‘Maintenance and Repair’ facility for the electric locomotives. It is situated in the jurisdiction of Vijayawada division of South Central Railway. • Maintenance of WAP4, WAG5 and WAG7 to ensure the safe and reliable operation of Locomotives by carrying out the following activities. • Preventive maintenance schedules include (i) Major schedules: AOH, TOH and IOH (ii) Minor schedules: IA, IB & IC • Breakdown maintenance schedules include (i) Repairs to locomotives of ELS/BZA and other homing sheds running in the vicinity of Electric Loco Shed, Vijayawada. • Apart from Locomotive maintenance shed also carries out Major schedule like AOH, IOH of OHE tower cars of Vijayawada, Guntur, and Guntakal division.
DEVELOPMENT OF TRACTION MOTOR DROPPING DETECTION SYSTEM (TMDDS) BY ELS/BZA IN CONVENTIONAL LOCOMOTIVES
Indian Railways was facing the problem of dropping of Traction Motor in Conventional Locomotives due to breakage of Top nose stay, which is the primary support of Suspension for Axle hung Nose suspended Traction Motors(TM) of Conventional Locomotives. As there is no indication for crew in the Conventional locomotive regarding dropping of TM on run, there were cases of derailment with loss of human life and Railway property.
ELS/BZA/SCR has developed TMDDS on recommendation of Railway Board after derailment of 15633 Bikaner-Guwahati Exp on 13.01.2022. Railway Board recommended vide Recommendation 7.2 of Lr. No: 2020/Elect.(TRS)/113/Misc. Safety, Dtd:- 15-03-2022 to Implement an Electrical System to detect intermediate position when Traction motor comes to rest on Bogie Transom with its lifting lugs in case of failure of top nose stay.
RDSO found “Scheme for TMDDS“, of ELS/BZA more appropriate after examining the proposals of ELS/BZA, ELS/KZJ & ELS/SRC and approved this system in to-to vide “Modification Sheet No RDSO/2022/EL/MS/0487 Rev 0 Dtd. 21.05.2022. ELS/BZA scheme, has a system by which LP/ALP are alerted through signaling lamp (LS Traction Motor) & Buzzer sound in Cab followed by DJ tripping with automatic emergency brake application via QEMS Relay by dropping of BP to zero and an event will be displayed in MPCS display that “DJ tripped via BPEMS”
Source : दक्षिण मध्य रेलवे CMS Team Last Reviewed : 01-03-2025 
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