Spotting GONDA WAG7 in SER Territory & LP Curiosity On My Railfanning

GONDA WAG7 Approaches SHM | © Soumo's Railways

This is the first time I heard of the Gonda Loco Shed and Gonda Junction Railway Station after spotting this inbound loco with a freight train to Shalimar yard, which was probably carrying aluminium coils of some kind (not sure) inside box wagons.

Gonda city and Gonda District is located in North Central Uttar Pradesh, about 125 km North East of Lucknow, and the loco shed and the junction railway station falls under the North Eastern Railway Zone of Indian railways.

LP is probably curious why I am taking picture of trains | © Soumo's Railways

I wish to quote the following from Wikipedia:

"Diesel Shed Gonda was established in year 1982 with a small holding of 22 WDM1 locomotives. In the past 31 years, it has witnessed many technological changes and has emerged one of the major diesel shed for maintenance of BG locomotives. Gonda shed has distinction of maintaining wide range of rolling stocks starting from WDM1 locomotives, YDM4 locomotives, shunting locomotives, AC/DC WDM2 locomotives, WDM2 -2600 HP, WDM3A-3100 HP locomotives and latest WDM3D3300 HP locomotives and high adhesion WDG3A locomotive. As on date, Diesel shed is homing 160 BG locomotives against the berthing capacity of 130 locos. Diesel shed is also extending technical assistance to Chhapra Satellite Shed. Diesel shed gonda is also maintaining the 140 Ton crane stabled at GKP.

Shed Loco Holdings:
WDM2 - 40 loco,
WDM3A - 94 loco,
WDM3D - 15 loco,
WDG3A - 05 loco,
WDS6 - 04 loco,
WDP-4D - 12 loco,


Gonda also has a newly-inaugurated electric loco shed that holds 33 locos, which include 30 WAG-7 locos and 3 WAP-4 locos."

I've been railfanning since February 2017, so I'm quite a new railfan compared to many veterans; but whatever be the duration of being in the trainspotting hobby, I have rarely spotted a loco from the NER Zone here in this part of the country. Hence it was a pleasant surprise to spot a rare guest to the home station and of course it was a good learning oppertunity as well.

Now something interesting happened, while I was recording the approach of the train via the PDPK station, the assistant LP was looking out of the door and might be thinking what I was doing there! You can watch the approach of the loco/ train and the LP watching me filming his train on the video thumbnail below:

RF Data:

Date: September 11, 2017
Place: Near PDPK - Padmapukur & SHM - Shalimar Railway Stations
Zone: SER - South Eastern Railway
Loco: GONDA WAG7 no. 27216
Loco Shed: North Eastern Railway.
Assigned For Train: Inbound Freight Train to Shalimar.

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