Diesel Loco Shed, Gooty

Diesel Loco Shed, Gooty

Gooty based WDM-3A in Kingfisher livery.
Location within Andhra Pradesh
Location
Location	Gooty, Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates	15.121°N 77.634°E / 15.121; 77.634
Characteristics
Owner	Indian Railways
Operator	South Coast Railway zone
Depot code	GY
Type	Engine shed
Roads	6
Rolling stock	WDG-4, WDP-4D, WAG-9 , WDG-4G, WDG-6G
History
Opened	5 December 1963 (1963-12-05)

Diesel Loco Shed, Gooty is an engine shed located in Gooty, Andhra Pradesh in India. It falls under the jurisdiction of Guntakal railway division of South Central Railway zone.

Logo of Diesel Loco Shed, Gooty

History

It is one of the oldest loco sheds, started by the British, initially as B.G Steam Loco Shed, which later got converted to B.G Diesel Loco Shed, in 1963.

Operations

It is one of the largest loco shed handling more than 200 locos. It handles routine maintenance on WDG-4 locos. The shed earlier in 2016, was allotted with EMD 710 locomotives having higher power output of 5,500 hp (4.1 MW) - the WDG-5 (EMD GT50AC). 3 units 50003, 50004 and 50005 were allotted, but were homed only till December 2017, due to maintenance difficulties and were sent to Sabarmati (SBT) Shed of Western Railway (WR) to be homed with other WDG-5 locos. This shed has been recently in April 2023, allotted with New-Generation Greener General Electric (GE) Diesel Locos, based on the Evolution Series (GEvo) platform, like the 4,500 hp (3.4 MW) WDG-4G (GE ES43ACmi) and the 6,000 hp (4.5 MW) WDG-6G (GE ES57ACi), which have completely replaced the old-ageing ALCO DL560C diesel locomotive fleet of this shed, making it the 3rd Shed in the entire IR Network after Roza (ROZA) and Gandhidham (GIMB), and the First one in South India to home these locomotives.

Locomotives

SN	Locomotives	HP	Quantity
1.	WDG-4/4D	4000/4500	14
2.	WDP-4/4B/4D		45
3.	WAG-9	6120	100
4.	WDG-4G	4500	66
5.	WDG-6G	6000	71
Total Locomotives Active as of August 2024			296