Dum Dum Junction railway station

Coordinates: 22°37′16″N 88°23′35″E / 22.621142°N 88.393157°E / 22.621142; 88.393157
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Dum Dum Junction

দম দম জংশন
Indian Railways and Kolkata Suburban Railway junction station
The station as seen from above on April 2024
General information
LocationDum Dum Road, Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal
India
Coordinates22°37′16″N 88°23′35″E / 22.621142°N 88.393157°E / 22.621142; 88.393157
Elevation9.61 metres (31.5 ft)
Owned byIndian Railways
Operated byEastern Railway
Platforms5
Tracks7
Connections Dum Dum
Construction
Structure typeElevated
ParkingNot available
Bicycle facilitiesNot available
AccessibleNot available
Other information
StatusActive
Station codeDDJ
Zone(s) Eastern Railway
Division(s) Sealdah
History
Opened1862; 162 years ago (1862)
Electrified1963–1965; 59 years ago (1965)
Previous namesEastern Bengal Railway
Services
Preceding station Kolkata Suburban Railway Following station
Bidhannagar Road
towards Sealdah
Main line& Sealdah–Bangaon line
 Belgharia
towards Ranaghat Junction
Dum Dum Cantonment
towards Bangaon Junction
Chord link Line
 Baranagar Road
towards Dankuni Junction
Bidhannagar Road
towards Dum Dum Junction
 Circular Line Patipukur
towards Dum Dum Junction
Location
Map

Dum Dum Junction is a very important and busy

Bangaon and Hasnabad. On the other hand in the south direction, those three lines go to the Sealdah, while the Kolkata Circular Railway line arises from it towards Patipukur, and also ends to it through Bidhannagar Road after encircling the city of Kolkata through various important stations like Kolkata railway station and Majerhat
.

The Dum Dum metro station of the Blue line is adjacent to Dum Dum railway station, making more connectivity to the city. It serves Dum Dum and the surrounding areas.

History

The Calcutta Sealdah–Kusthia line of Eastern Bengal Railway was opened to traffic in 1862.[1] Eastern Bengal Railway worked on the eastern side of the Hooghly River, which in those days there was no bridge.[2]

In 1882–84 the Bengal Central Railway Company constructed two lines: one from Dum Dum to Khulna present day which is in Bangladesh, via Bangaon and the other linking Ranaghat and Bangaon.[3] The Bengal Central Railway was formed in 1881 to construct and operate a line to Khulna. Later, it was merged with Eastern Bengal Railway in 1903.[4]

The 33.06 km (21 mi) long

Dankuni.[3]

Electrification

The Sealdah–Ranaghat line and the Dum Dum–Barasat–Ashok Nagar–Bangaon line were electrified in 1963–64. Further, the Dum Dum–Dankuni sector was electrified in 1964–65.[6]

Platforms

Platform 1

Platform 1 mostly handles trains in the Up Sealdah Main Line sections. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Dankuni chord line, Sealdah-Baruipara local, Sealdah-Bangaon section.

Platform 2

Platform 2 only handles Down Sealdah bound trains in the Sealdah-Main Line section and almost all trains from Dankuni and Baruipara and a few from the Bangaon-Sealdah section.

Platform 3

Platform 3 mostly handles Up train in the Sealdah-Dankuni chord line section, Sealdah-Baruipara local, the Sealdah-Bangaon section, Kolkata-Lalgola MEMU and Sealdah-Lalgola Passenger and MEMU trains. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Main Line section and trains coming from Budge Budge, Majerhat through Ballygunge Junction.

Platform 4

Platform 4 mostly handles trains in the Sealdah bound trains in the Bangaon-Sealdah section. It also handles a few Dankuni-Sealdah trains and also handles trains from Majerhat and Ballygunge through Princep Ghat joining the Sealdah-Main Line section(and sometimes the reverse route too) and down passengers trains coming from Lalgola.

Platform 5

It mostly handles trains coming from or going to Princep Ghat, although Princep Ghat is not the terminus for trains passing through this platform. The Bangaon-Canning local also stops by this platform.

Passengers

Dum Dum railway station platformboard

Dum Dum railway station handles 576,000 passengers daily.[7]

Connections

Train

Being an important railway junction station in the Sealdah Division of the Eastern Railways, Dum Dum Junction serves as an important halt to many long-distance trains like-

  • Fast Passenger
    (Up 53131 / Dn 53132)
  • Sealdah–Lalgola Passenger (Up 53171,  53175, 53179,53181, 63105 / Dn 53172, 53176, 53180, 53182, 53186, 63106)
  • Sealdah–Jangipur DEMU (Up 73151/ Dn 73152)
  • Sealdah–Rampurhat MEMU (Up 63141 / Dn 63142) etc.

Metro

It is connected with Dum Dum metro station of Kolkata Metro Line 1 . The metro station is connected through subways.

Auto

Dumdum station-Nagerbazar, Dumdum station-Chiriamore, Dumdum Station- RG Kar Hospital, Dumdum station-30A bus-stand and Dumdum Station-Sinthee More autos ply on this route.

Buses

Bus route number 30B, 30B/1, 202, 219/1, DN9/1, S168 (Mini), E19D, S10, 11A, AC38 by Dum Dum Road serve the station.[8][9]

Air

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is connected via Dum Dum Rd and Jessore Rd; distance between Dumdum junction and the airport is 5.6 km.

References

  1. ^ "IR History: Early days (1832–1865)". IRFCA. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Eastern Bengal Railway". fibis. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b "The Chronology of Railway development in Eastern Indian". Rail India. Archived from the original on 16 March 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Bengal Central Railway". fibis. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  5. ISBN 81-7022-089-0. Retrieved 2 May 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
    )
  6. ^ "History of Electrification". IRFCA. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  7. ^ "Dum Dum". Railenquiry.in. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Bus route". The Calcutta Tramways Company. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Bus Services". Transport Department, Government of West Bengal.

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