Adra Junction railway station

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Adra Junction
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Adra Junction rail station building
General information
LocationAdra Town, station road, Raghunathpur and Kashipur block area, Purulia district, West Bengal
India
Coordinates 23°29′46″N86°40′26″E / 23.496°N 86.674°E / 23.496; 86.674
Elevation185 metres (607 ft)
Operated bySouth Eastern Railways
Line(s) Asansol–Tatanagar–Kharagpur line, Adra–Gomoh line, Kharagpur–Bankura–Adra line
Platforms4
Tracks8 (excluding Yard)
ConnectionsRaghunathpur , Kashipur , Purulia
Construction
Structure typeAt ground
ParkingAvailable
AccessibleYes
Other information
StatusFunctional
Station codeADRA
Zone(s) South Eastern Railway
Division(s) Adra
History
Opened1887
Rebuilt1904
Electrified1961–62 [First electrified functional line in Adra division]
Previous names Bengal Nagpur Railway
Services
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South Eastern Railway zone Metyal Sahar
Location
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Adra Junction railway station serves Adra town, and also serves the industrial towns of Raghunathpur and Kashipur in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a gateway to the famous tourist spots of Purulia district. It also servers as the divisional headquarters of the Adra Division of the South Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. Adra (ADRA) station is categorized as NSG 4 on the basis of yearly window sale. The station has also been declared as 'Model' as well as 'Adarsh' station. The station serves the Divisional Head Quarters.

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It is an important junction station, with railway tracks from four different directions meeting there and is the busiest station in the entire division handling a huge amount of passenger and freight train traffic in a day. Many important and long distance trains like Rajdhani, Duronto, NandanKanan, Vivek Express, Samarsatha Express etc. having stoppages at Adra and patronization of these trains are good.

Trains

Some of the Major Trains available from this railway station are as follows:

History

The Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line, a joint effort of Great Indian Peninsula Railway and East Indian Railway Company came up in 1870. [5] The Bengal Nagpur Railway was formed in 1887 for the purpose of upgrading the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway and then extending it via Bilaspur to Asansol, in order to develop a shorter Howrah–Mumbai route than the one via Allahabad. [6] The Bengal Nagpur Railway main line from Nagpur to Asansol, on the Howrah–Delhi main line, was opened for goods traffic on 1 February 1891. [7] However, it was only after Kharagpur was linked from the west and the south that it was connected to Howrah in 1900. [8]

BNR lines were extended to Gomoh, on EIR's main line, in 1907. The Mohuda–Chandrapura branch line was opened in 1913. [7]

Electrification

The Asansol–Purulia section was electrified in 1961–62. [9] The first MEMU train services in SER were started in between Adra and Asansol. Later these services started between Adra–Purulia, Adra–Tatanagar and Adra–Medinipur.

Adra–Asansol line
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Source: Indian Railway Time Table

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