Serampore Town Railway Station

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Serampore Town
শ্রীরামপুর টাউন
श्रीरामपुर टाऊन
Embankment of the Calcutta Railway behind the city of Serampore, 1853 [1]
Embankment of the Calcutta Railway behind the town of Serampore, 1853
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 4 platforms
opening August 14, 1854
location
Place / district Serampore
State West Bengal
Country India
Coordinates 22 ° 45 '14 "  N , 88 ° 20' 19"  E Coordinates: 22 ° 45 '14 "  N , 88 ° 20' 19"  E
Height ( SO ) 17  m
Railway lines
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The Serampore Town station is a station of the main route Howrah - Bardhaman in India.

location

An Indian train station, 1854

The transit station is located near the town of Serampore in Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal on the main line Howrah - Delhi and the suburban railway from Calcutta ( Engl. Kolkata Suburban Railway).

The station has four platforms. There are three broad gauge through tracks on the section from Belur to Bandel . Serampore Town is 20 km by train to Howrah Junction Railway Station , 3 km to Sheoraphuli , 20 km to Bandel and 87 km to Bardhaman. The address is Roy Bahadur MC Lahiri Street, Town Station Bazaar, Serampore-01 (712201), West Bengal.

history

The first train on the East Indian Railway, 1854

The East Indian Railway Company was founded on June 1, 1845 to build and operate a railway line from Howrah near Calcutta to Delhi . The corrugated iron hut at Howrah station could only be reached from Calcutta by ferry across the Hugli River . After the planning and surveying work, construction began in 1851.

The first train on the Eastern Railway ran from Howrah to Hugli on August 15, 1854 . His first stop was Bally and the second stop was Serampore.

Speed ​​limit

The Howrah – Bardhaman route is categorized as a 'B' class route, allowing trains to travel at speeds of up to 130 km / h.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Railways in India. - The Calcutta Railway. The Illustrated London News from a sketch by GK Ingelow, Esq., Volume XXII, No. 617, for the week ended April 16, 1853, pp. 281-282.
  2. ^ Race, class and gender. In: Marian Aguiar: Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility. University of Minnesota Press, 2011, p. 17.
  3. ^ Howrah Division Operating Department . Eastern Railway. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ Permanent Way . In: Track Classifications . Retrieved January 15, 2012.