Diesel Loco Shed

One of the oldest Diesel loco shed in India, doing repair and maintenance work of Diesel locomotive. Alco and HHP locomotive are currently maintained. Additional AC electric loco will be added soon for maintenance.

THIS IS THE BEST ALCO AND EMD LOCO SERVING SHED, THERE IS ALSO DTTC (DIESEL TRACTION TRAINING CENTRE) MEANS LOCO PILOTS TRAINING CENTRE.

This is one of the Oldest Institution of Indian Railways. Used to Maintain and Repair Steam Engines in Earlier Years. Now taking care of Diesel Locomotives. Won many Awards for Excellence in Work.

Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock is an engine shed located in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu in India. It is located north of Golden Rock railway station, falling under Tiruchirappalli railway division. It is the largest of the four locomotive shed under the Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways.

The foundation stone for the shed was laid on the 2⃣5⃣th of December, 1⃣9⃣7⃣1⃣ by the then Railway Minister, K Hanumanthaiya. The shed was open for operations in 1975⃣ with a total area of 169,000 square metres (170,000 m2) and covered area of 19,600 square metres (20,000 m2).

The shed initially homed 45 of the YDM-4 class metre gauge locomotives. Three subsequent expansions were taken up which resulted in the holding capacity being increased to 100 metre gauge locomotives (1998), 40 broad gauge locomotives (1993) and 100 broad gauge locomotives (2000).

The shed was started as a metre gauge shed. However with expansion over time, the bays and catwalks were converted from metre gauge to broad gauge standards to home broad gauge locomotives. Later, the shed went for a major expansion of its bays at a cost of ₹14 crore (US$2.0 million) to undertake maintenance activity for the unconventionally longer high-speed 4,000–Hp and 4,500–Hp EMD locos, which were homed since July 2011, thus becoming the first-of-its-kind shed in India to maintain such high powered locos, which were extensively utilised for both passenger and freight services.The shed also houses a Diesel Traction and Training Centre (DTTC), opened on 7 April 1988, to impart theoretical and practical training for the newly recruited Assistant Loco Pilots, Engineers and other technical staffs. The centre only one of its kind in the zone also conducts periodical refresher courses for the in-service staffs of Indian Railways,and also too railway personnels from other countries.The DTTC along with Zonal Railway Training Institute (ZRTI), Trichy made a mark by imparting training to women, by which Narayana Vadivu and Jhansi Rani, became the first all women loco crew in the history of Southern Railway zone piloting a goods train on the chord line.

The shed, headed by Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Diesel), has about 750 employees in different ranks in the day-to-day operations of the shed, which include periodical overhaul, maintenance and repair works.The locos of this shed were thoroughly traverses over entire South India for passenger and freight services.

The prestige for tamil nadu. This is a central government initiative working wonderful. The factory manufacturers diesel locomotive engines for trains. The engines are utilized for domestic needs as well as exported to foreign countries. But low productive company as staff het higher salary and work less. Even though they company manages to get regular order.

Southern region of India depended this Diesel Loco shed .
Its really a Historic place for Indian railways.

Good location accurate

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My work Loco shed

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Station in natural ground the workshop looks pretty to watch

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The service centre for diesel locomotives

Indian railways office

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Great place for learning