A Tour to AJLS/Arakkonam Electric Loco Shed, ‎31 ‎July ‎2018

This electric shed came up in the 1980s, but Arakkonam had a big steam shed earlier. This shed had 5 WAP-1 locos until 2002, were transferred to Ghaziabad. It later got WAP-4 locos -- the entire SR fleet -- which were then moved to Erode/Lallaguda. New WAG-7 locos were acquired but later transferred to Erode. Started receiving new WAP-4's in late 2004. 30+ WAP-1 locos transferred back from Ghaziabad in 2009 out of which all but 5 were sent to Royapuram in 2011.