Location India Opened 1859 | Status Partially Defunct Closed 1930 | |
Line(s) Kanpur-Allahabad railway line Structure type Standard (on ground station) | ||
Kanpur Junction (also known as Kanpur Purana) was a former station in Kanpur on the Kanpur-Allahabad railway line opened in 1859 and closed after the opening of Kanpur Central, the present station.
History
After the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bombay and Thane, this was the fourth railway line in India opened from Allahabad to Kanpur (180 km) on 3 March 1859, which was the first passenger railway line in North India. This was followed in 1889, by the Delhi - Ambala - Kalka line.
References
Kanpur railway station Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA