Banaras Locomotive Works

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Banaras Locomotive Works
Company typeElectric locomotive production unit
Industry Electric locomotive
PredecessorDiesel Locomotive Works
Founded23 April 1956
Headquarters
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
,
India
Key people
Basudev Panda [1]
Products WAP-7
WAG-9
Owner Indian Railways

The Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), formerly Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), is an Indian state-owned production unit of Indian Railways situated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. DLW was renamed BLW in 2020. [2]

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History

Founded in 1956 as the DLW, it manufactured locomotives which are variants based on the original ALCO-built WDM-2. Since 2002, it started the manufacture of EMD 710 based high horsepower (4000 HP+) locomotives - The WDG-4 (EMD GT46MAC), WDP-4 (EMD GT46PAC), and its variants. In July 2006, it outsourced manufacture of some locomotives to Parel Workshop, Central Railway, Mumbai. [3] DLW was renamed BLW in October 2020. [2] . In 2012, it built a locomotive powered by the 20-cylinder 710 engine (based on the EMD SD80MAC). This locomotive would be the 5500 HP WDG-5 (EMD GT50AC)

In March 2019, it developed the country's first bi-mode locomotive, the WDAP-5. BLW today produces primarily the electric locomotives WAP-7 & WAG-9. [4]

Market

Besides the Indian Railways, BLW regularly exports locomotives to other countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, and Vietnam and also to a few users within India, such as ports, large power and steel plants and private railways. [4] [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Govt appoints five new general managers in Railways". The New Indian Express. 30 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 "DLW to be now known as Banaras Locomotive Works". The Times of India. 31 October 2020.
  3. ↑ Verma, Kalpana (19 August 2008). "Engine manufacturing unit at Parel a boon for Rlys". Indian Express . Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Welcome to BLW Official Website". blw.indianrailways.gov.in. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman & CEO, Railway Board flags off 40th 6,000 HP Electric Loco from Banaras Loco Works (BLW), Varanasi". pib.gov.in.

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