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Dum Dum Junction

Dum Dum Junction
Kolkata Suburban Railway Junction Station
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Location Dum Dum road, Dum Dum, Distt:North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
India
Coordinates 22°37′15″N 88°23′36″E / 22.6209°N 88.3933°E / 22.6209; 88.3933Coordinates: 22°37′15″N 88°23′36″E / 22.6209°N 88.3933°E / 22.6209; 88.3933
Elevation 10.00 metres (32.81 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Operated by Eastern Railway
Line(s)

Sealdah-Barrackpore-Naihati-Ranaghat-Krishnanagar City main line
Sealdah-Barasat-Bangaon branch line

Sealdah-Dankuni-Baruipara branch line
Platforms 5
Tracks 7
Construction
Structure type Standard (on ground station)
Parking No
Bicycle facilities No
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code DDJ
Division(s) Sealdah
History
Opened 1862
Electrified 1963-65
Previous names East Indian Railway
Services
Preceding station   Indian Railway   Following station
Eastern Railway zone
Terminus Eastern Railway zone
Terminus Eastern Railway zone
Dum Dum-Dankuni Calcutta chord line
Location
Dum Dum railway station is located in West Bengal
Dum Dum railway station
Dum Dum railway station
Location in West Bengal

Sealdah-Barrackpore-Naihati-Ranaghat-Krishnanagar City main line
Sealdah-Barasat-Bangaon branch line

Dum Dum is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Junction Station on the Sealdah-Ranaghat line. Two lines branch out after Dum Dum – the Calcutta chord line to Dankuni and the Sealdah-Hasnabad-Bangaon-Ranaghat line to Bangaon and Hasnabad. The Dum Dum metro station is adjacent to Dum Dum railway station. It is located in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Dum Dum and the surrounding areas.

The Calcutta (Sealdah)-Kusthia line of Eastern Bengal Railway was opened to traffic in 1862. Eastern Bengal Railway worked on the eastern side of the Hooghly River, which in those days was unbridged.

In 1882–84 the Bengal Central Railway Company constructed two lines: one from Dum Dum to Khulna, now in Bangladesh, via Bangaon and the other linking Ranaghat and Bangaon. The Bengal Central Railway was formed in 1881 to construct and operate a line to Khulna. It was merged with Eastern Bengal Railway in 1903.

The 33.06 km (21 mi) long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) wide broad gauge line from Barasat to Hasnabad was constructed between 1957 and 1962.


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