Location | |
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Location | Royapuram, Chennai, India |
Coordinates | 13°06′15″N 80°17′37″E / 13.10403°N 80.29366°E |
Characteristics | |
Owner | Indian Railways |
Operator | Southern Railway zone |
Depot code | RPM |
Type | Engine shed |
Roads | 6 |
Rolling stock | WAP-7 |
History | |
Opened | 2010 |
Former rolling stock | WAP-1 WAP-4 |
Electric Loco Shed, Royapuram is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Royapuram on the Chennai Beach–Katpadi section of the Chennai Suburban Railway network in Chennai, India. It is located in the Southern Railway zone and it is one of the three electric locomotive sheds of the Southern Railway, the others being at Erode (ED) and Arakkonam (AJJ) and is the newest in south India.