Jajpur Keonjhar Road | |||||||||||
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Indian Railways station | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | Byasanagar, Odisha India | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 20°51′00″N86°19′48″E / 20.8500°N 86.3300°E | ||||||||||
Elevation | 36 metres (118 ft) | ||||||||||
Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||||||||
Operated by | East Coast Railway | ||||||||||
Platforms | 6 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Standard on ground | ||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Functioning | ||||||||||
Station code | JJKR [1] | ||||||||||
Division(s) | Khurda Road | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1896 | ||||||||||
Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
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Jajpur Keonjhar Road railway station serves Jajpur district and Kalinganagar in Indian state of Odisha.
The railway station is located at an altitude of 36 metres (118 ft). [2] It functions within the jurisdiction of Khurda Road railway division. It is the nearest railhead for Kalinganagar.
During the period 1893 to 1896, 1,287 km (800 mi) of the East Coast State Railway, from Vijayawada to Cuttack was built and opened to traffic, and construction of the Vijayawada–Chennai link in 1899 enabled the through running of trains along the eastern coast of India. Bengal Nagpur Railway was working on both the Howrah–Kharagpur and Kharagpur–Cuttack lines, completed the bridge over the Rupnarayan in 1900 and the Mahanadi in 1901, thus completing the through connection between Chennai and Kolkata. Since stations were not built in Keonjhar district & Jajpur, this station lied in middle of Jajpur & Keonjhar. Earlier people used this station for travelling to Keonjhar & Jajpur.
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