Banaras Locomotive Works

Banaras Locomotive Works
Company typeElectric locomotive production unit
IndustryElectric locomotive
PredecessorDiesel Locomotive Works
Founded23April,1956
Headquarters,
India
Key people
Basudev Panda[1]
ProductsWAP-7
WAG-9
OwnerIndian Railways

The Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), formerly Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), is a production unit of Indian Railways situated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

DLW stopped manufacturing diesel locomotives in 2019 and was renamed BLW in 2020.[2]

  1. ^ "Govt appoints five new general managers in Railways". The New Indian Express. 30 October 2017.
  2. ^ "DLW to be now known as Banaras Locomotive Works". The Times of India. 31 October 2020.

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