Brief History
This workshop, earlier known as Carriage & Wagon Workshop was established by the princely state of Oudh & Rohilkhand Railway (O&RR) at Alambagh, Lucknow in 1865 to carry out the periodical overhauling (POH) of rolling stock both Goods & Coaching stock.
After about sixty years, that is in the year 1925 the O&RR was taken over by the Eastern Indian Railway (EIR) along with all assets and liabilities. Thus the Carriage & Wagon workshop Alambagh and Loco motive workshop charbagh became the part and parcel of EIR. Subsequently in 1952 the EIR merged with Northern Railway and Alambagh workshop became one of the premier Carriage & Wagon Workshop to cater the need of broad gauge rolling stock in the Northern part of the Country.
In order to attain the optimal degree of productivity a lot of changes of product mix have been witnessed in this workshop over the last 140 years. In a phased manner the POH of Goods stock was reduced and ultimately the POH activity of Goods stock was totally stopped from Feb-1995.
Presently the activity of this workshop is purely POH of Coaching stock.
After phasing out of wagon POH activity since Feb'95, this workshop has emerged as a major workshop for POH of coaching stock. With the highly motivated workforce, this workshop has been able to accept POH of modern high-speed coaches provided with roller bearings, Air Brake and AC system though the basic infrastructure of the shops had been developed for POH of conventional IRS rolling stock.
The Basic Data for workshop are as under
- WORKSHOP AREA = 204684 Sq. Mtrs.
- COVERED AREA = 72595 Sq. Mtrs.
- POWER CONSUMPTION = 14666 KWH/day
- WATER CONSUMPTION = 1575000 Ltrs./day
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