Owned by Indian Railways Parking No Elevation 10 m Platforms in use 5 | Operated by Eastern Railway Opened 1862 Owner Indian Railways | |
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Location Dum Dum road, Dum Dum, Distt:North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
India Line(s) Sealdah-Ranaghat line
Sealdah-Hasnabad-Bangaon-Ranaghat line Structure type Standard (on ground station) Similar Bidhannagar Road railway st, Naihati railway station, Ranaghat railway station, Kankinara railway station, Dum Dum metro station | ||
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.
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History
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.
In 1932, the Calcutta chord line was built over the Willingdon Bridge joining Dum Dum and Dankuni.
Electrification
The Sealdah-Ranaghat sector and the Dum Dum-Barasat-Ashok Nagar-Bangaon sector were electrified in 1963–64. The Dum Dum-Dankuni sector was electrified in 1964-65.
Passengers
Dum Dum railway station handles 576,000 passengers daily.