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Ranchi Rajdhani Express
''Ranchi Rajdhani Express'' is a premier train in the exclusive fleet of Rajdhani Express of Indian Railways. History * On 17 October 2001, Nitish Kumar, former Minister of Railways, inaugurated the train service as a weekly service through with Hatia as the terminating station instead of present terminating station Ranchi. Later, in 2004 the frequency was increased to bi-weekly. * On 11 June 2006, Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Minister of Railways, inaugurated the train service as a bi-weekly service through the Prayagraj - Mughalsarai - Daltonganj - Barkakana - Muri route. Later in 2021, after gauge conversion of Ranchi - Lohardaga rail line and construction of Lohardaga - Tori rail line the route was changed to Prayagraj - Mughalsarai - Daltonganj - Lohardaga - Tori - Ranchi. Further, the route for the train service on one of the two days of a week was changed to Prayagraj - Chunar - Chopan - Daltonganj - Lohardaga - Tori - Ranchi. Coach Composition Traction The tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajdhani Express
Rajdhani may refer to: * ''Rajdhani'' (film), 1956 Indian film * ''Rajadhani'' (1994 film), Indian Malayalam-language film * ''Rajadhani'' (2011 film), Indian Kannada-language film * Rajdhani, Kotli, a village in Pakistan * Rajdhani, Gorakhpur, a village in India * Rajdhani Express, premium passenger train service in India * Rajadhani Express Blue Line Express ( Sinhala: රාජධානි එක්ස්ප්රස් ''Rajadhani Ekspras'') is a train service provider in Sri Lanka, a part of Blue Line Company. Blue Line Express provides premium services on several routes i ..., a railway service provider in Sri Lanka See also * Rajadhani (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkakana Junction Railway Station
Barkakana Junction railway station, (station code BRKA), serves Barkakana and the surrounding coal mining areas in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It comes under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway zone. History In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh–Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later, these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway. In the same year (1927), Bengal Nagpur Railway The Bengal Nagpur Railway was one of the companies which pioneered development of the railways in eastern and central India. It was succeeded first by Eastern Railway and subsequently by South Eastern Railway. History The opening of the ... opened the Muri–Barkakana section to traffic. The 57 km-long Hazaribagh–Barkakana section was opened for passenger trains on 7 December 2016 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das Electrification Barkakana–Garhwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dehri-on-Sone Railway Station
Dehri-on-Sone railway station (station code: DOS) is on the Gaya–Mughalsarai section of the Grand Chord line. It stands next to the Nehru Setu and serves Dehri and the surrounding areas in Rohtas district in the Indian state of Bihar. It's located on the banks of Son river, a tributary of river Ganges. History The Grand Chord was commissioned in 1906. Dehri Rohtas Light Railway The long wide narrow gauge Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Dehri Rohtas Light Railway (DRLR) was a narrow gauge railway line between Dehri-on-sone, Dehri-On-Sone and Tiura Pipara Dih in the state of Bihar, India. History The Dehri Rohtas Light Railway started off as Dehri Rohtas Tramway Company in 1 ... stretching from Dehri-on-Sone to Rohtas was opened in 1911. It was closed in 1984. Electrification The Gaya–Mughalsarai sector was electrified in 1961–63. Amenities Dehri-on-Sone railway station has 1 non-AC retiring room, and a four-bedded non-AC dormitory. It has a restaurant. The station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaya Junction Railway Station
Gaya Junction railway station is a junction station serving the city of Gaya, the headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh Division in the Indian state of Bihar. Gaya is in the Mughalsarai railway division of the East Central Railway zone. Grand Chord rail-line that connects Howrah and New Delhi passes through Gaya. It lies between on the Delhi side and on the side. It is located at . It has an elevation of . Gaya is connected with most of the states through rail network. Very few trains do-not stop here- sealdah duranto, bhubaneswar duranto, jharkhand sampark kranti and Odisha sampark kranti. There are also two other broad-gauge train lines from Gaya, one to Patna and the other to . The city has two major railway stations: Gaya Junction & Manpur Junction. Gaya is well connected with Patna, Jehanabad, Biharsharif, Rajgir, Islampur, Nawada through daily passenger and express train services. History Several years before the Grand Chord was built, a connection from the How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renukut Railway Station
Renukoot is a city and a nagar panchayat in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Renukoot is 68 km south from the district headquarters Robertsgan Renukoot is an industrial town. It is well known for the Hindalco aluminium plant and Rihand Dam. It is situated in eastern Uttar Pradesh sharing borders with Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. It is about 434 km from the capital city Lucknow. Geography Renukoot is located at . It has an average elevation of 283 metres (931 feet). Renukoot lies in the southeast-most part of Uttar Pradesh and sits next to Shakti Nagar, Anpara, Dalla and Obra. Renukoot is in Sonebhadra district which is the only district in India which borders four states, namely Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Bihar. Rihand Dam, located 6 km from Renukoot, was built over Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Lake and the Rihand River (a tributary of the Son River). This dam was created in 1960 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koderma Junction Railway Station
Koderma Junction railway station, station code KQR, is railway station of the Indian railway serving the city of Jhumri Telaiya, Koderma, the headquarters of Koderma district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Koderma is located at . It is in the Dhanbad railway division of the East Central Railway zone. Grand Chord rail-line that connects Howrah and New Delhi passes through Koderma Junction. Other 3 lines have been connected with Koderma making it a junction namely Koderma–Hazaribagh–Barkakana–Ranchi line, Koderma–Giridih–Madhupur line and Koderma–Tilaiya line. It has an elevation of . Koderma has a rail connectivity with the other major parts of the country such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Pune, Guwahati etc. History The Grand Chord was opened in 1906. Electrification The Gomoh–Koderma sector was electrified in 1961–62. Facilities The station houses all the major facilities like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garwa Road Junction Railway Station
Garhwa Road Junction railway station (station code: GHD) is a railway station located in Palamu district, Jharkhand, India, some from the town of Garhwa. It belongs to East Central Railway. All major express and passenger trains stop here. Three rail section originate from the Garhwa Road Junction : # Garhwa Road - Sone Nagar rail section # Garhwa Road - Barkakana rail section # Garhwa Road - Chopan rail section # # See also * Daltonganj * Palamu Loksabha constituency * Jharkhand Legislative Assembly The Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha or the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Jharkhand. List of assemblies See also *List of Chief Ministers of Jharkhand *List of constituencies of the Jharkhand Legislative Asse ... References External links * Railway stations in Palamu district Railway junction stations in Jharkhand Dhanbad railway division {{Jharkhand-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bokaro Steel City Railway Station
Bokaro Steel City railway station (station code:- BKSC) is a railway station on the Gomoh–Muri branch line and Adra–Bokaro Steel City branch line under Adra division of South Eastern Railways. It is located in Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It lies at the edge of Jharia Coalfield and serves Bokaro Steel City, and the surrounding mining-industrial area. History The railway station and the surrounding areas were earlier called Maraphari, in what was then Hazaribagh district. The surrounding areas are still referred to as Maraphari. With the construction of the Bokaro Steel Plant, the railway station was renamed Bokaro Steel City. Amongst the railway lines earlier laid in the area was the Grand Chord of East Indian Railway Company which was opened in 1906. With the opening up of coalfields in the area between Gomoh and Barkakana, came the Gomoh–Barkakana line in 1927. The Bengal Nagpur Railway built the line from Nagpur to Asansol and opened it for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Loco Shed, Ghaziabad
Electric Loco Shed, Ghaziabad is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at of the Northern Railway zone in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the two electric locomotive sheds of the Northern Railway, the others being at Ludhiana (LDH) . History Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Ghaziabad until the late 1960s. After Northern Railway set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the Steam locomotive sheds was decommissioned. To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Delhi to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Ghaziabad was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed. New Electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in the late 1976s with WAM-4 which stayed until late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAP-7
The Indian locomotive class WAP-7 is a class of 25 Volt, kV Alternating current, AC Electric locomotive, electric locomotives that was developed in 1999 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways. The model name stands for 5 ft 6 in gauge railway, broad gauge (W), AC Current (A), Passenger traffic (P) engine, 7th generation (7). They entered service in 2000. A total of 1424 WAP-7 have been built, with more units being built at CLW, Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) and Diesel-Loco Modernisation Works, Patiala Locomotive Works (PLW). The WAP-7 is one of the most successful locomotives of Indian Railways serving passenger trains for over 22 years. It is a passenger variant of the Indian locomotive class WAG-9, WAG-9 freight locomotive with a modified gear ratio to pull lighter loads at higher speeds. With an output of , it is the most powerful passenger locomotive in the Indian Railways fleet, and the most numerous passenger locomotive in India. The WAP-7 is capable of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chopan Railway Station
Chopan railway station (station code: CPU) is a major railway station located in the Sonbhadra district of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh which primarily serves Chopan town and its surrounding areas. The station consists of five platforms and the platforms are well sheltered and well equipped with all the basic amenities. The station connects 'Sonbhadra district' to major cities such as Jammu, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Lucknow, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Tanakpur Tanakpur (Kumaoni: टनकपुर) is a city and a municipal board in Champawat district of Uttarakhand state of India. Located in the plains area in the northern part of India. The town is the gateway for Purnagiri Temple (around 24 ..., Dhanbad, Asansol, Howrah, Kolkata, Gaya (India), Gaya, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Kharagpur, Sambalpur, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Ajmer and Ahmedabad. ''Ranchi Rajdhani Express'', ''Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express'', ''Muri Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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