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Indian locomotive class WDM-2

Index Indian locomotive class WDM-2

The class WDM-2 is Indian Railways' workhorse diesel-electric locomotive. [1]

63 relations: Abu Road railway station, ALCO 251, ALCO DL560C, American Locomotive Company, Axle load, Barddhaman Junction railway station, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Bogie, Bokaro Steel City railway station, Bore (engine), Co-Co locomotives, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar Junction railway station, Diesel engine, Diesel fuel, Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam, Diesel Loco Shed, Erode, Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock, Diesel Loco Shed, Guntakal, Diesel Loco Shed, Pune, Diesel Loco Shed, Ratlam, Diesel Loco Shed, Samastipur, Diesel locomotive, Diesel Locomotive Works, Diesel–electric transmission, Electro-Motive Diesel, General Electric, Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, Guwahati railway station, Headstock (rolling stock), History of rail transport in India, Howrah Junction railway station, Indian locomotive class WDM-1, Indian locomotive class WDM-4, Indian Railways, Indian Railways Fan Club, Itarsi Junction railway station, Jamalpur Junction railway station, Jhansi Junction railway station, Katni Junction railway station, Kazipet Junction railway station, Krishnarajapuram railway station, Loco Shed, Kalyan, Locomotives of India, Lucknow Charbagh railway station, Malda Town railway station, Moula-Ali, Rail transport in India, Railway air brake, Raipur Junction railway station, Shakur Basti (Delhi Assembly constituency), ..., Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Railways, Sri Lanka Railways M8, Stroke (engine), Traction motor, Tughlakabad railway station, Turbocharger, V16 engine, Vacuum brake, Vatva, Vijayawada Junction railway station, Visakhapatnam railway station, 5 ft 6 in gauge railway. Expand index (13 more) »

Abu Road railway station

Abu Road railway station is located in Sirohi district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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ALCO 251

The Alco 251 is a 4-stroke diesel engine that was developed by the American Locomotive Company to replace the 244 and 539 engines.

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ALCO DL560C

The ALCO DL560C is a passenger/freight-hauling diesel-electric locomotive with AC electric transmission designed by the American Locomotive Company and produced under license by Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) of Varanasi, India for Indian Railways as their classes WDM-2, WDM-3A/2C, WDM-3D and WDG-3A for operation in India.

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American Locomotive Company

The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.

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Axle load

The axle load of a wheeled vehicle is the total weight felt by the roadway for all wheels connected to a given axle.

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Barddhaman Junction railway station

Barddhaman is a railway junction station on the Howrah-Delhi main line and is located in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Bharat Heavy Electricals

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) owned and founded by the Government of India, is an engineering and manufacturing company based in New Delhi, India.

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Bogie

A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.

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Bokaro Steel City railway station

Bokaro Steel City is a railway station on the Gomoh-Muri branch line and Adra-Bokaro Steel City branch line.

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Bore (engine)

The bore or cylinder bore is a part of a piston engine.

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Co-Co locomotives

Co-Co is the wheel arrangement for a diesel locomotive with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate motor per axle.

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Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar Junction railway station

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar Junction railway station (station code MGS), formerly known as Mughalsarai Junction, is a famous railway station in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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Diesel fuel

Diesel fuel in general is any liquid fuel used in diesel engines, whose fuel ignition takes place, without any spark, as a result of compression of the inlet air mixture and then injection of fuel.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam

Diesel Loco Shed, Ernakulam is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for diesel locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at (ERS) of the Southern Railway zone in the city of Kochi, Kerala.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Erode

Diesel Loco Shed, Erode is an engine shed located on Erode–Chennimalai road in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock

Diesel Loco Shed, Golden Rock is a engine shed located in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu in India.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Guntakal

Diesel Loco Shed, Guntakal is an engine shed located in Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh in India.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Pune

Diesel Loco Shed, Pune is a engine shed located in Pune, Maharashtra in India.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Ratlam

Diesel Loco Shed, Ratlam is a engine shed located in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh in India.

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Diesel Loco Shed, Samastipur

Diesel Loco Shed, Samastipur is an engine shed located in Samastipur, in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Diesel Locomotive Works

The Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) in Varanasi, India, is a production unit owned by Indian Railways, that manufactures diesel-electric locomotives and its spare parts.

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Diesel–electric transmission

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.

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Electro-Motive Diesel

Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Gonda, Uttar Pradesh

Gonda is a city and municipal board of Gonda district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Guwahati railway station

Guwahati railway station is located in the heart of Guwahati, Assam.

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Headstock (rolling stock)

A headstock of a rail vehicle is a transverse structural member located at the extreme end of the vehicle's underframe.

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History of rail transport in India

Rail transport in India began during the early nineteenth century.

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Howrah Junction railway station

No description.

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Indian locomotive class WDM-1

The 1st class of Wide Gauge(W), Diesel powered(D), Mixed load(M),i.e., meant for hauling both freight and passenger trains.

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Indian locomotive class WDM-4

The class WDM-4 is the fourth class of India's wide-gauge (W), diesel-fueled (D) and mixed-load (M) series, capable of hauling both freight and passenger trains.

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Indian Railways

Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways.

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Indian Railways Fan Club

The Indian Railways Fan Club (IRFCA) is a fan website devoted to the Rail transport in India.

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Itarsi Junction railway station

Itarsi Junction (station code: ET) is a railway station in Hoshangabad District in Madhya Pradesh from which more than 330 trains passes everyday.

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Jamalpur Junction railway station

Jamalpur Junction railway station, station code JMP, is the railway station serving the Munger-Jamalpur twin cities in the Munger district in the Indian State of Bihar.

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Jhansi Junction railway station

Jhansi Junction is a major railway junction in the city of Jhansi in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh.

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Katni Junction railway station

Katni Junction (Station Code: KTE) is a major rail junction in Katni, India.

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Kazipet Junction railway station

Kazipet junction railway station (station code:KZJ) is located in Warangal Urban district of Telangana It is an important railway junction connecting north and south India.

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Krishnarajapuram railway station

Krishna rajapura railway station is an suburb station located in Krishnarajapuram which is located about 14 km away from the Bangalore City railway station.

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Loco Shed, Kalyan

Electric Loco Shed, Kalyan is an electric engine shed located in Kalyan in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Locomotives of India

The Indian Railways primarily operates electric and diesel locomotives.

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Lucknow Charbagh railway station

Lucknow railway station (official name Lucknow NR, station code LKO) is one of the two main railway stations of Lucknow city for broad gauge trains, other one is "Lucknow Jn" (station code "LJN").

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Malda Town railway station

Malda Town is a railway station, serves Malda city in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Moula-Ali

Moula-Ali once it's a suburb of Hyderabad city, India.

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Rail transport in India

Rail transport is an important mode of transport in India.

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Railway air brake

A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium.

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Raipur Junction railway station

Raipur Junction is the main railway station serving the city of Raipur.It is only few of the railway stations in India which has been given the grade 'A-1' by the Indian Railways and is one of the highest revenue earning railway stations in India.

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Shakur Basti (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Shakur Basti assembly constituency is one of the seventy Delhi assembly constituencies of Delhi in northern India.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Lanka Railways

The Sri Lanka Railway Department (more commonly known as Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)) (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා දුම්රිය සේවය Śrī Laṃkā Dumriya Sēvaya; Tamil: இலங்கை புகையிரத சேவைகள்) is Sri Lanka's railway owner and primary operator.

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Sri Lanka Railways M8

Sri Lanka Railways Class M8 is a class of Sri Lankan diesel-electric locomotive that was developed by Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi, India, in 1996.

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Stroke (engine)

In the context of an Internal combustion engine, the term stroke has the following related meanings.

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Traction motor

A traction motor is an electric motor used for propulsion of a vehicle, such as an electric locomotive or electric roadway vehicle.

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Tughlakabad railway station

Tughlakabad railway station is on the Kanpur-Tundla-Agra-Delhi line.

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Turbocharger

A turbocharger, or colloquially turbo, is a turbine-driven forced induction device that increases an internal combustion engine's efficiency and power output by forcing extra air into the combustion chamber.

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V16 engine

A V16 engine is a V engine with 16 cylinders.

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Vacuum brake

The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s.

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Vatva

Vatva assembly constituency (વટવા વિધાનસભા બેઠક) is one of the 182 assembly constituency of Gujarat.

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Vijayawada Junction railway station

Vijayawada railway station (station code:BZA) is an Indian railway station in Vijayawada of Andhra Pradesh.

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Visakhapatnam railway station

Visakhapatnam railway station (station code:VSKP) is a major railway station located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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5 ft 6 in gauge railway

is the size of a broad track gauge commonly used in India, Pakistan, western Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, and on the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_locomotive_class_WDM-2

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