A comparative study of present stock of main AC Passenger Electric locomotives in Indian Railways as per Oct 2014:
1 WAP 4: Total 699 in number in 14 sheds as described below:
Sheds and number of P4s
Erode (ED) 108
Howrah...
more... (HWH) 91
Santragachi (SRC) 73
Vadodara (BRC) 66
Lallaguda (LGD) 60
Mughalsarai (MGS) 59
Ghaziabad (GZB) 52
Itarsi (ET) 50
Kanpur (CNB) 42
Royapuram (RPM) 40
Bhusawal (BSL) 40
Visakhapatnam (VSKP) 12
Tatanagar (TATA) 3
Ludhiana (LDH) 3
2 WAP 7: Total 180 loco in service from Nov 2013 in 8 sheds as described below
The current locomotive sheds which house WAP 7 are:
1. Ghaziabad (Code:GZB)
2. Lallaguda (Code:LGD)
3. Ajni (Code:AJNI)
4. Howrah (Code:HWH)
5. Bhilai (Code:BIA)
6. Royapuram (Code:RPM)
7. Tughlakabad (Code:TKD)
8. Gomoh (Code: GMO)
3 WAP 5: Total 100 locos are in operation in two sheds as described below:
In addition to GZB shed till date, Vadodara electric loco shed is also given with new WAP5 locos from feb-2012 starting from 30044.No 30044 is named GAURAV.
Ghaziabad (GZB)
Vadodara (BRC)
So total passenger locomotive is 979 out of which
P 4:699
P5:100
P7:180
On percentage basis:
P4: 71.39% of the total stock
p7: 18.39% of the total stock
p5: 10.22% of the total stock
At least from the above statistics it can be said that P4s will dominate and will secure top position in the list in future also.
Pics
1 SRC P4
2 GZB P7
3 BRC P5
Opinions are welcome