Units & branches apart from four open line divisions i.e sealdah,howrah,asansol and malda,this railway has three major workshops situated at liluah,kanchraparaand jamalpur. liluah workshop to meet up the requirement of rolling stock of railways,the carriage and wagon workshop at liluah was set up in 1900. the workshop was primarily assigned the task of manufacturing passenger coaches and freight wagons as well as their periodic overhaul. the coach manufacturing was undertaken up to 1972 and about 3000 coaches were produced. wagon manufacturing was discontinued after 1947. liluah is currently undertaking periodic overhauling (poh) of various types of coaches and freight wagons. it has become the largest coaching poh workshop in the country. with an effluent treatment plant,the workshop has been certified with iso 9002. kanchrapara workshop kanchrapara workshop was set up in 1863 by the then eastern bengal railway as a combined workshop for repairs to steam locomotives,wooden bodied carriage and wagons. the management of this workshop was taken over by the state on 1st july,1864. with the introduction of electric traction,this workshop has now undertaken the work of repairs and periodic overhaul of electric locomotives and electric multiple units (emu). jamalpur workshop the locomotive engineering workshop at jamalpur (as it was originally known) was established 150 years ago on the 8th of february,1862. it enjoys the distinction of being the largest and the oldest locomotive repair workshop with the most diversified manufacturing activities within the indian railways. on 15th january 1935,the jamalpur workshop along with the entire railway colony was destroyed by an earth-quake. it took 3 years to rebuild it from scratch. jamalpur workshop undertakes manufacturing and repairing of various types of wagons,periodic overhauling of diesel locomotives,140 ton cranes,tower-wagons and whiting jacks. mechanical signal workshop,howrah apart from the above,eastern railway has one mechanical signal workshop situated on the west bank of river hooghly at howrah. it manufactures and repairs mechanical signalling gears and electrical and electro-mechanical signalling instruments which are supplied to all the zonal railways on ir. services coaching services eastern railway provides long distance passenger traffic service in the form of several prestigious mail/express trains. the rajdhani express was introduced for the first time on indian railways between howrah and new delhi over eastern and northern railways in 1969. the honour of running the fastest long-distance train of indian railways has again gone to eastern railway with the introduction of duronto express trains. the first duronto express on indian railways ran from sealdah to new delhi on 18-09-2009. on the suburban front,howrah and sealdah divisions of eastern railway are catering to the needs of the greater kolkata suburban passengers. most of the suburban routes are electrified and more than 1300 emus/memus are run everyday making er the second largest suburban network on indian railways.
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