Kanchrapara Railway Workshop

Kanchrapara Railway Workshop
Company typeGovernment Sector
IndustryRail Transport
Founded1863; 161 years ago (1863)
HeadquartersKanchrapara, West Bengal,
India
Key people
  • Surendra Kumar (CWM, IRSEE, July 2019-present)[1]
  • Pramod Gupta(July 2018- July 2019)
  • Manoj Mahajan (July 2015-July 2018)
₹853.5 crore (US$100 million)
Number of employees
7503 (January 2019)
ParentIndian Railways
WebsiteKanchrapara_Workshop

22°56′17″N 88°26′38″E / 22.938°N 88.444°E / 22.938; 88.444

The Kanchrapara Railway Workshop is one of the major workshops of Indian Railways, and is located in the Sealdah division of the Eastern Railway zone. It is divided into two complexes — Loco Complex and Carriage Complex. It caters to the major overhauling of a large product mix of IR, including locomotives (WAP7, WAP4, WAG9, WAG7, WAG5, WAM4), ICF Coaches, EMUs, MEMUs, DEMUs, Tower Cars, etc.[2] Its mention can be found in Satyajit Ray's short story "Patol Babu Superstar", which was also included in the Class 10 English Communicative Curriculum of the CBSE.

  1. ^ "Contacts". Eastern Railway.
  2. ^ "Milestones in POH of Rolling Stock". Eastern Railway. Retrieved 2018-11-26.