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Electric Loco Shed, Bokaro Steel City
	BKSC based WAG-9H at Parasnath.
	Location within Jharkhand
Location
Location	Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand
Coordinates	23°39′24″N 86°05′08″E / 23.6568°N 86.0855°E
Characteristics
Owner	Indian Railways
Operator	South Eastern Railways
Depot code	BKSC
Type	Engine shed
Roads	7
Rolling stock	WAG-9
History
Opened	2011; 13 years ago
Former rolling stock	WAG-5 ; WAG-7

Electric Loco Shed, Bokaro Steel City is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Bokaro Steel City of the South Eastern Railway zone in Jharkhand, India.

Operations

Being one of the four electric engine sheds in South Eastern Railway, various major and minor maintenance schedules of electric locomotives are carried out here. It has the sanctioned capacity of 100 engine units. Beyond the operating capacity, this shed houses a total of 110 engine units, including 66 WAG-7 and 44 WAG-9. Like all locomotive sheds, BKSC does regular maintenance, overhaul and repair including painting and washing of locomotives.^[1]

Locomotives

SN	Type of Loco	HP	Holding
1.	WAG-9	6120	223
Total locomotives active as of October 2024^[2]			223

References

^ "Sheds and Workshops". IRFCA. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
^ "e-Locos".

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[sheds-1] "Sheds and Workshops". IRFCA. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

[2] "e-Locos".

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