Indian Railway Knowledge: Most of us must have traveled by train. While traveling, we come across many letters, numbers, signs and signals, which are written on the trains as well as on the platforms. You must have seen WAG, WAP, WDM, WAM etc written on the locomotive or train engine of Indian Railways. Have you ever wondered what they mean? So let’s understand it in simple language.
The first letter ‘W’ of these codes means the gauge of the railway track, which is five feet. The power of the engine can be understood from the other letters ‘A’ and ‘D’. While ‘A’ means the source of power is electricity. And there ‘D’ means that the train runs on diesel.
Similarly, the purpose of engines is understood by the third letter ‘P’, ‘G’, ‘M’ and ‘S’. ‘P’ means passenger train, ‘G’ means goods train, ‘M’ means mixed purpose and ‘S’ means ‘shunting’.
Now let’s try to decode these codes.
This is the meaning of WAG written in the engine of Indian Railways
If you have seen ‘WAG’ written on the engine of a train, then you have to understand that it runs on wide gauge track and is an AC motive power engine, which is used to pull goods train. Similarly, if you find ‘WAP’ written on an engine, then it should not take you long to understand that it runs on wide gauge track and runs on the power of AC and pulls the passenger train.
Meaning of WAM written in Indian Railway’s engine
If ‘WAM’ is written on an engine, it simply means that it runs on wide-gauge tracks, it is an AC motive power engine, which is used to haul both passenger and goods trains. Sometimes you can find ‘WAS’ written on the engines. This means that they are AC Motive Power locomotives and run on broad gauge tracks. Their use is for shunting purposes.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : February 05, 2023, 07:00 IST
