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Patiala Locomotive Works (PLW) (formerly Diesel Loco Modernization Works (DMW)) is a production unit of the Indian Railways located at Patiala in the Indian state of Punjab. It was set up in the year 1981 as "Diesel Component Works" (DCW) to meet the demand of maintaining the Railway's diesel locomotives . [ 3 ]
They entered service in 2000. A total of 1683 WAP-7 have been built, with more units being built at CLW, Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) and Patiala Locomotive Works (PLW). The WAP-7 is the most successful locomotives of Indian Railways [peacock prose] serving passenger trains since its introduction in 1999.
In 2018, a couple of GOC-based WDP-3A locomotives were rebuilt at DMW Patiala with better bogies for riding comfort. Such rebuilt toasters bear the suffix 'R' to their road numbers. However, due to age issues and cracking of bogie underframes, the WDP-3A locomotives of DLS, GOC, and KYN were withdrawn gradually from hauling passenger trains and ...
Patiala State Monorail Trainways (PSMT) was a unique rail-guided, partially road-borne railway system running in Patiala from 1907 to 1927. [1] [2] PSMT was the second monorail system in India, after the Kundala Valley Railway, [3] near Munnar in Kerala, and the only operational locomotive-hauled railway system built using the Ewing System in the world. [4]
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Patiala State was a kingdom and princely state in British India, and one of the Phulkian States, that acceded to the Union of India upon Indian independence and partition in 1947. The state was founded by Ala Singh in 1762. [2] [3] Patiala State was the largest and most important princely state in the Punjab Province. [4]
PEPSU state in East Punjab. On 1 November 1956, PEPSU was merged mostly into Punjab State following the States Reorganisation Act. [1]A part of the former state of PEPSU, including the present day Jind district and the Narnaul tehsil in north Haryana as well as the Loharu tehsil, Charkhi Dadri district and Mahendragarh district in southwest Haryana, presently lie within the state of Haryana ...
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