Kurla Diesel Shed is established in year 1952. It is meant to cater the shunting services of BB division and homing shunting locos. This shed was designed and developed originally for homing Hydraulic locos but from 25.07.2007 shed is under transition for homing ALCO class locos. This shed also homing A class Accident Relief Train (ART) with 140 T capacity Diesel hydraulic brake down Rail crane which is used in case of accidents as a rescue equipment. Apart from this shed is also handling Railway Consumer depot (RCD) for storage Diesel oil for fuelling of Diesel Locomotives in Mumbai area. |