About Parel Loco WorkShop Central Railway Of India in b a road, Parel

The Central Railway Locomotive Workshop, Parel was set up by Great Indian Peninsular Railway as a Steam Loco Shed in 1879. Later repair and overhauling of Steam loco had started, and that had reached peak capacity of 32 Steam locos per month in 1962-63. With tapering of Steam traction, the Shop was upgraded to take up the work of Repair and Overhauling of Diesel locomotives from 1974-75 onwards.

It is one of the largest and oldest repair Workshops on the Indian Railways with diversified repair/manufacturing activities. Being located in the heart of Mumbai, it has ready access to road, sea and air transport. The Parel Workshop has the unique distinction of rendering services to the Armed Forces during the World Wars.



Parel Workshop has gradually diversified and is at present also carrying out the repair and overhauling of Diesel locomotives, Diesel cranes, Rehabilitation of Main Line Coaches. This shop also manufactures many components for diesel locos, Carriages and Wagon.

This workshop has also successfully manufactured Narrow Gauge locos for Neral - Matheran section and for Kalka - Simla section.

This is the only workshop, other than DLW and CLW, which builds Diesel Locomotives.

BRIEF HISTORY
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1879
- Established as Steam Loco Shop & Shed.


●1974
- Repairs of Diesel Locomotives.


●1997
- Repairs of 140Tonne Cranes used in Accident Relief.


●2002
- ISO-9001:2000, certified to 2008 version in 2010


●2005
- Manufacture of Narrow Gauge Loco.


●2006
- Manufacture of Broad Gauge Diesel Locomotive Under frame.


●2007
- Manufacture of Broad Gauge Diesel Locomotives.


●2007
- Mid Life Rehabilitation of Coaches.


●2009
- Repair to Coach Bogies


●2010
- Supply of Wagon Wheels


●2010
- 100th Broad Gauge Diesel loco manufactured


●2010 - First Microprocessor based Broad Gauge Diesel Shunting
●2010 - loco for Indian Railways
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- Track Cleaning Machine made for Divisions