Station code BB | Opened 1853 | |
Location Mumbai, Maharashtra
India Owned by Great Indian Peninsular Railway Closed 1878; 139 years ago (1878) Owner Great Indian Peninsula Railway Similar St Thomas Cathedral - Mumbai, Horniman Circle Gardens, Dadabhai Naoroji Road, Bhor Ghat, Hutatma Chowk | ||
Bori Bunder railway station was a railway station, presently defunct, situated at Bori Bunder, Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was from here that first train journey of the subcontinent started to Thane in 1853.
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History
Built by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, this railway station takes its name from the nearby locality, Bori Bunder. On 16 April 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway operated the first passenger train in India from Boree Bunder to Tannah (now Thane) with 14 bogies and 400 passengers. The train which had three named passenger cars, viz., Sindh, Sultan and Sahib took off with three locos embarked on an hour-and-fifteen-minute journey to Tannah (now Thane). The journey covered a distance of 24 miles (39 km), formally heralding the birth of the Indian Railways.
Reconstruction
The station was eventually rebuilt as the Victoria Terminus, named after the then reigning Queen Victoria, and has been subsequently renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CSTM) after Maharashtra's and India's famed 17th-century king.