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Dum Dum Junction

দম দম জংশন
Dum Dum Junction; দম দম জংশন
Indian Railways and Kolkata Suburban Railway junction station
	The station as seen from above on April 2024
General information
Location	Dum Dum Road, Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal; India
Coordinates	22°37′16″N 88°23′35″E / 22.621142°N 88.393157°E
Elevation	9.61 metres (31.5 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	Eastern Railway
Platforms	5
Tracks	7
Connections	Dum Dum
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Parking	Not available
Bicycle facilities	Not available
Accessible	Not available
Other information
Status	Active
Station code	DDJ
Zone(s)	Eastern Railway
Division(s)	Sealdah
History
Opened	1862; 162 years ago
Electrified	1963–1965; 59 years ago
Previous names	Eastern Bengal Railway
Services
	Dum Dum Cantonment towards Bangaon Junction
Location

Dum Dum Junction is a very important and busy junction station of the Kolkata Suburban Railway on the Sealdah–Ranaghat line. Three lines branch out from Dum Dum in the north direction–the Kolkata Eastern line to Gede, the Calcutta chord line to Dankuni and the Sealdah–Hasnabad–Bangaon–Ranaghat line to Bangaon and Hasnabad. On the other hand in the south direction, those three lines go to the Sealdah, while the Kolkata Circular Railway line arises from it towards Patipukur, and also ends to it through Bidhannagar Road after encircling the city of Kolkata through various important stations like Kolkata railway station and Majerhat.

The Dum Dum metro station of the Blue line is adjacent to Dum Dum railway station, making more connectivity to the city. It serves Dum Dum and the surrounding areas.

History edit

The Calcutta Sealdah–Kusthia line of Eastern Bengal Railway was opened to traffic in 1862.^[1] Eastern Bengal Railway worked on the eastern side of the Hooghly River, which in those days there was no bridge.^[2]

In 1882–84 the Bengal Central Railway Company constructed two lines: one from Dum Dum to Khulna present day which is in Bangladesh, via Bangaon and the other linking Ranaghat and Bangaon.^[3] The Bengal Central Railway was formed in 1881 to construct and operate a line to Khulna. Later, it was merged with Eastern Bengal Railway in 1903.^[4]

The 33.06 km (21 mi) long 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge line from Barasat to Hasnabad was constructed between 1957 and 1962.^[5] In 1932, the Calcutta Chord line was built over the Willingdon Bridge joining Dum Dum and Dankuni.^[3]

Electrification edit

The Sealdah–Ranaghat line and the Dum Dum–Barasat–Ashok Nagar–Bangaon line were electrified in 1963–64. Further, the Dum Dum–Dankuni sector was electrified in 1964–65.^[6]

Platforms edit

Platform 1 edit

Platform 1 mostly handles trains in the Up Sealdah Main Line sections. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Dankuni chord line, Sealdah-Baruipara local, Sealdah-Bangaon section.

Platform 2 edit

Platform 2 only handles Down Sealdah bound trains in the Sealdah-Main Line section and almost all trains from Dankuni and Baruipara and a few from the Bangaon-Sealdah section.

Platform 3 edit

Platform 3 mostly handles Up train in the Sealdah-Dankuni chord line section, Sealdah-Baruipara local, the Sealdah-Bangaon section, Kolkata-Lalgola MEMU and Sealdah-Lalgola Passenger and MEMU trains. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Main Line section and trains coming from Budge Budge, Majerhat through Ballygunge Junction.

Platform 4 edit

Platform 4 mostly handles trains in the Sealdah bound trains in the Bangaon-Sealdah section. It also handles a few Dankuni-Sealdah trains and also handles trains from Majerhat and Ballygunge through Princep Ghat joining the Sealdah-Main Line section(and sometimes the reverse route too) and down passengers trains coming from Lalgola.

Platform 5 edit

It mostly handles trains coming from or going to Princep Ghat, although Princep Ghat is not the terminus for trains passing through this platform. The Bangaon-Canning local also stops by this platform.

Passengers edit

Dum Dum railway station platformboard

Dum Dum railway station handles 576,000 passengers daily.^[7]

Connections edit

Train edit

Being an important railway junction station in the Sealdah Division of the Eastern Railways, Dum Dum Junction serves as an important halt to many long-distance trains like-

Sealdah–Muzaffarpur Fast Passenger (Up 53131 / Dn 53132)
Sealdah–Lalgola Passenger (Up 53171, 53175, 53179,53181, 63105 / Dn 53172, 53176, 53180, 53182, 53186, 63106)
Sealdah–Jangipur DEMU (Up 73151/ Dn 73152)
Sealdah–Rampurhat MEMU (Up 63141 / Dn 63142) etc.

Metro edit

It is connected with Dum Dum metro station of Kolkata Metro Line 1 . The metro station is connected through subways.

Auto edit

Dumdum station-Nagerbazar, Dumdum station-Chiriamore, Dumdum Station- RG Kar Hospital, Dumdum station-30A bus-stand and Dumdum Station-Sinthee More autos ply on this route.

Buses edit

Bus route number 30B, 30B/1, 202, 219/1, DN9/1, S168 (Mini), E19D, S10, 11A, AC38 by Dum Dum Road serve the station.^[8]^[9]

Air edit

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is connected via Dum Dum Rd and Jessore Rd; distance between Dumdum junction and the airport is 5.6 km.

References edit

^ "IR History: Early days (1832–1865)". IRFCA. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
^ "Eastern Bengal Railway". fibis. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
^ ^a ^b "The Chronology of Railway development in Eastern Indian". Rail India. Archived from the original on 16 March 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
^ "Bengal Central Railway". fibis. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
^ Moonis Raza & Yash Aggarwal (1986). Transport Geography of India: Commodity Flow and the Regional Structure of Indian Economy. Concept Publishing Company, A-15/16 Commercial Block, Mohan Garden, New Delhi – 110059. ISBN 81-7022-089-0. Retrieved 2 May 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ "History of Electrification". IRFCA. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
^ "Dum Dum". Railenquiry.in. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
^ "Bus route". The Calcutta Tramways Company. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
^ "Bus Services". Transport Department, Government of West Bengal.