Dum Dum railway station

Dum Dum Junction
Kolkata Suburban Railway Junction Station
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 Sealdah-Thakurnagar Sealdah-Gobardanga Sealdah- Duttapukur Sealdah- Habra
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 Bidhannagar Road Eastern Railway zone Krishnanagar City Belgharia Terminus Eastern Railway zone Dum Dum-Bangaon branch line Dum Dum Cantonment Terminus Eastern Railway zone Dum Dum-Dankuni Calcutta chord line Baranagar Road Terminus Eastern Railway zone Calcutta Circular line Patipukur
Location
Dum Dum railway station Location in West Bengal

Sealdah-Barrackpore-Naihati-Ranaghat-Krishnanagar City main line
Sealdah-Barasat-Bangaon branch line
Sealdah-Dankuni-Baruipara branch line Sealdah-Thakurnagar Sealdah-Gobardanga Sealdah- Duttapukur

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.