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Howrah railway division is one of the four railway divisions under the jurisdiction of Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. [1] This railway division was formed on 1854 and its headquarters is located at Howrah in West Bengal, India. [2] It covers the area more than 400 km which includes parts of Bihar and Jharkhand also. [3]
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The Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 by amalgamating three lower divisions of the East Indian Railway: Howrah, Asansol and Danapur, the entire Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) and the Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway [3] (which was already added to the East Indian Railway on 15 August 1947).
Two corridors (one local and other through) follow the South Eastern Railway run from Howrah Junction (HWH) to Midnapore (128 km). At the mainline there is a bifurcation into two branch lines – one from Panskura to Haldia (69 km) in the south-east and the other from Shalimar to Amta (50 km) in the west.
The Line consists of a total 266 stations and the entire line is at grade. It mainly consists of two sections according to its division area and the main two terminal stations of Kolkata metropolitan region: the Howrah section, centered around Howrah railway station and the Sealdah Section centered around Sealdah railway station.
Howrah is one of the five large intercity railway stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area, the others being Sealdah, Santragachi, Shalimar and Kolkata railway station. The first public train from the station was on 15 August 1854, on what is now the Howrah – Hooghly Main Line. [ 16 ]
Rampurhat Junction railway station is 7th busiest railway stations of Eastern Railway zone and it is the Largest and Busiest railway station of Birbhum district of West Bengal. It is a NSG-3 Category and Class A station. The station is under Howrah railway division is the 3rd busiest station in this division.
It has four divisions; Howrah and Sealdah divisions operate the system. The Sealdah division was part of the Eastern Bengal Railway before the recategorisation. [4] [5] Howrah division is the oldest in the ER zone. [6] On 1 February, 1957, the EMU services were introduced on the Howrah – Bandel section of the Howrah division. In 1963 ...