Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, usually shortened to CLW, is a state-owned Indian builder of electric locomotives and the make under which Indian Railways locomotives built at Chittaranjan in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of West Bengal are grouped, with an ancillary unit at Dankuni. The works takes its name from the freedom fighter and statesman Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das. The railway board approved the site in 1947 and the survey began on 9 January 1948. The project was launched in 1950 as Loco Building Works to produce 120 average-sized steam locomotives and 50 spare boilers, steam production began on 26 January 1950, and on 1 November 1950 President Rajendra Prasad dedicated the first locomotive to the nation, the day the works took its present name. The article reports that in the 2024 to 2025 financial year it produced 700 locomotives.
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is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1980 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1993 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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was a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1970 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways
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is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1978 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1990 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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is a class of 1.5 kV DC electric locomotives that was developed in the late 1960s by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways
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is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was manufactured by CLW in the late 1960s for Indian Railways
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that was designed by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways in 1987
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that was developed in the mid-1990s by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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that was developed in 1973 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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that was developed in 1961 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways
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that was developed in 1995 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways
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was a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in 1979 by the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways
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The rolling stock works of Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in West Bengal initially manufactured locomotives from imported parts
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Between 1963 and 1966, 259 more were built, but these were ordered from Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), and were manufactured in India, and classified WP/I.
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built by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan, in Burdwan District, West Bengal, India
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