Month: February 2018

Bangalore is one of the important junctions of India. Platforms 1 to 7 connect to the Chennai and Salem railway lines. On platforms 8 to 10, service trains arrive via Yeshwantpur from Hubli. Platforms 1 to 4 terminate at Bangalore. […]

Ahmedabad Railway Station is the main railway station of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is also the biggest & busiest railway station within Gujarat. It is second highest income generating division in Western Railways besides Mumbai Division. […]

Ernakulam Junction is one of the most important stations in India. It is the largest of the 3 major stations serving the city other being Ernakulam north and aluva railway station. It is the second busiest in terms of no of trains after aluva. Even though there has been many proposal to convert Ernakulam junction into a world class station no development is now presently occurring. […]

Tiruchirappalli (tiruccirāppaḷḷi) (About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (formerly Trichinopoly in English), also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli District. Located 322 kilometres (200 mi) south of Chennai and 379 kilometres (235 mi) north of Kanyakumari, Tiruchirappalli sits almost at the geographic centre of the state. […]

The present station was built in 1928, though the imposing building was completed in 1930.This building’s construction is inspired by Lucknow’s magnificent Charbagh NR railway station building which was built by British in 1914 but could not be constructed similar to Charbagh because it needed a huge amount of money. […]

Sealdah is one of the major railway stations serving Kolkata (Calcutta) in India, the others being Howrah Station, Shalimar Station and Kolkata Railway Station. […]

Kharagpur Junction came up in 1898-99. On one side, Bengal Nagpur Railway’s Kharagpur-Cuttack line was opened on New Year’s Day in 1899. On the other hand, the opening of the bridge over the Rupnarayan River at Kolaghat, on 19 April 1900, connected Howrah with Kharagpur. […]

Visakhapatnam Junction (Hindi – विशाखापट्टनम जंक्शन, Telugu – విశాఖపట్నం జంక్షన్) is a major railway station located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. The railway station is under the control of East Coast Railway of Indian Railways.  […]

Lucknow Junction or Lucknow Jn NE (station code LJN), is unofficially considered a part of Charbagh railway stations. Colloquially, it is known as “Chhoti Line”, historically it harboured NE Railways’ Meter Gauge trains of erstwhile Izzatnagar Division, now falls under Lucknow Division of NE Railway. It is the terminus station for broad gauge trains of North Eastern Railway just like Howrah, Chennai Central and Mumbai CST. […]

The station is well connected by rail to all parts of India. Over 190 trains arrive at, or depart from, the station, daily, transporting over one hundred thousand passengers to their destinations across the country.  […]