Anand Vihar Terminal (station code: ANVT) is a railway station in the
Anand Vihar
Anand Vihar Terminal (station code: ANVT) is a railway station in the Anand Vihar locality of Delhi, India. It is under the administrative control of the Delhi Division of the Northern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.
This station was offi ...
locality of
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
, India. It is under the administrative control of the Delhi Division of the
Northern Railway zone
The Northern Railway (NR) is one of the 19 Railway zones of India and the northernmost zone of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Baroda House in New Delhi.
History
Officially notified as a new railway zone on 14 April 1952, ...
of the
Indian Railways
Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tot ...
.
This station was officially inaugurated on 19 December 2009 by the then Union
Railway minister
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Mamata Banerjee, and
Chief Minister of Delhi
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Sheila Dixit.
The terminal, spread over , is one of the largest railway stations and will cater to all East–bound trains from Delhi after the second phase becomes operational.
History
Anand Vihar Terminal railway station is developed as a terminal station of New Delhi.
Delhi Sarai Rohilla Terminal and
Hazrat Nizamuddin Terminal are two more railway terminals in the city of Delhi from where many regional and long-distance trains originate.
Background
![Anand Vihar Terminal - platformboard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Anand_Vihar_Terminal_-_platformboard.JPG)
The city of
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
heavily depends on the rail transport to cater for the increasing load of passengers to their destinations. The long-distance trains from Delhi used to ply from three stations namely (Old Delhi), and s. These stations lacked the infrastructure facilities to handle such high passenger rush. Also, Delhi is the connecting station for the cities in the Northern states
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
,
Haryana
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...
,
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
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,
Uttarakhand
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and
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* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...
. With increasing passenger pressure at the existing stations, the requirement of additional major passenger terminals was identified by the
Northern Railways
The Northern Railway (NR) is one of the 19 Railway zones of India and the northernmost zone of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Baroda House in New Delhi.
History
Officially notified as a new railway zone on 14 April 1952, ...
. The eastbound trains from Delhi to the states of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
,
Bihar
Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...
,
Orissa
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,
Jharkhand
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West Bengal
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and other
North-eastern states had to cross the bridge over
River Yamuna
The Yamuna ( Hindustani: ), also spelt Jumna, is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about on the southwestern slopes of Ban ...
as all the three stations are located on the other side of the river. Thus, the area of Anand Vihar was selected in the trans-Yamuna region to construct a mega-railway terminal.
In 2003, Union railway minister
Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unite ...
announced that Delhi would get a new rail terminal at Anand Vihar.
The station was commissioned in the 2003 rail budget
and in December 2003, Northern Railway floated a tender to employ consultants for Phase-I of Anand Vihar railway station project.
The foundation stone of the station was laid by the then Union Minister of Railways,
Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unite ...
on 25 January 2004.
The first phase was expected to be completed by 2006.
Development
Due to the delay caused by various reasons, the construction was started by the
Northern Railways
The Northern Railway (NR) is one of the 19 Railway zones of India and the northernmost zone of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Baroda House in New Delhi.
History
Officially notified as a new railway zone on 14 April 1952, ...
in October 2006.
The deadline for completion of the first phase was initially mid-2007 which was later revised to March 2008 due to various reasons. The station was finally declared clear for public use by the Commissioner of Railway Safety on 20 October 2009
and was officially inaugurated on 19 December 2009 by the Former Union
Railway minister
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,
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee (; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current List of chief ministers of West Bengal, chief minister of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal since 20 ...
and then
Chief Minister of Delhi
The chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the head of government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. According to the Constitution of India, the lieutenant governor is the National Capital Territory of Delhi's ''de ...
,
Sheila Dikshit
Sheila Dikshit () (née Kapoor; 31 March 1938 – 20 July 2019) was an Indian politician. The longest-serving Chief Minister of Delhi, as well as the longest-serving female chief minister of any Indian state, she served for a period of 15 yea ...
. However, regular trains starting to ply from 10 March 2010
and the station continued functioning below capacity till a stampede at
New Delhi station on 16 May 2010 made it clear that the New Delhi station handling 300,000 to around 500,000 passengers each day was saturated and thus the Northern Railways decided to transfer more trains to Anand Vihar and utilise it effectively.
Northern Railways planned to shift around six more regular trains to Anand Vihar by mid-July and also open the tender inviting global consultancies to propose a masterplan for the station Phase-II which also included augmenting the number of platforms to 7 from the existing 3 platforms in the Phase-I of the project.
Railway station
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The new terminal was developed to decongest the New Delhi railway station, Delhi Junction (Old Delhi) and . The terminal is modeled on the lines of the station at
Navi Mumbai
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Navi Mumbai is part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The city is ...
.
The new terminal also helped to relieve congestion on roads into New Delhi, reducing the load of a million people daily entering the city. The railway terminal is integrated with the Anand Vihar
Interstate Bus Terminal (
Vivekanand Bus Terminal) and the
Anand Vihar station of the
Delhi Metro
The Delhi Metro is a mass rapid transit (MRT) system serving Delhi and its satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Bahadurgarh and Ballabhgarh, in the National Capital Region of India. The network consists of 10 colour-cod ...
located close by, thus transforming it into a major transportation hub of
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
. Further, widening of the rail overbridge at Anand Vihar is planned as the current structure is not capable for handling the traffic.
Phase I
![ANVT](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/ANVT.jpg)
Phase I of the two-storey railway station was inaugurated on 19 December 2009 with three
platforms, a coach maintenance yard and feeder lines to the Sahibabad Junction.
This phase cost and took five years to be completed. In the inauguration, two new trains – the Anand Vihar-
Lucknow
Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...
Special Train and the
Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad () is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a part of Delhi NCR. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghaziabad district and is the largest city in western Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,729,000. Ghaziabad Muni ...
-New Delhi Ladies Special Train were flagged off. A
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
–
Panipat
Panipat () is a historic city in Haryana, India. It is 95 km north of Delhi and 169 km south of Chandigarh on List of National Highways in India, NH-1. The three major battles fought in First Battle of Panipat, 1526, Second Battle of ...
EMU
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with number of coaches augmented from 12 to 15 was also inaugurated. The two passenger trains to
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
-New Jalpaiguri Express and
Farakka Express
The 13413 / 13414 Farakka Express is an Express train of Indian Railways connecting Murshidabad and Malda districts of West Bengal with the national capital Delhi. This train is in much demand from the people of the district of Malda and Murshi ...
will be shifted to run from this terminal. Further, three existing trains running from
Nizamuddin and stations to
Varanasi
Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
*
*
*
* The city has a syncretic t ...
,
Jogbani
Jogbani is a town, a notified area in Araria District of Bihar state, India. It lies on the Indo-Nepal border with Morang District, Koshi Zone and is a gateway to Biratnagar city. There is a customs checkpoint for goods at the border. Indian ...
and
Motihari
Motihari is the headquarters of East Champaran district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Bihar. It is located District entry point and New City 40.09 kilometres Northeast Mehsi. north of the state capital Patna.
Geograp ...
will be shifted to the new terminal to originate from there from March onwards.
While the original deadline for completion of the first phase was mid-2007, it was revised to March 2008 and the project was delayed further due to various reasons.
However regular trains from the station started on 10 March 2010.
Gradually many trains were shifted from New Delhi and other stations to Anand Vihar. A number of
EMU
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s of the
Delhi Suburban Railway
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pass through the station. Along with that several special trains are run from the station to accommodate the heavy rush of passengers.
Phase II
In phase II the number of platforms will be increased to seven in total and the terminal will have a capacity to handle over three lakh passengers and as many as 270 trains daily. The total cost of the terminal is estimated to be around including the cost of phase I and it would have a new Passenger Reservation System (PRS). Phase II of the Anand Vihar makeover involves linking this terminal with the original Anand Vihar station (Station code: ANVR) which is a roadside station comprising two platforms serviced by only sub-urban trains.
Northern Railways
The Northern Railway (NR) is one of the 19 Railway zones of India and the northernmost zone of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Baroda House in New Delhi.
History
Officially notified as a new railway zone on 14 April 1952, ...
invited a consultant for Phase-II of Anand Vihar for upgrading the station with world-class facilities.
Facilities
The station has facilities like booking offices, booking counters, waiting for halls with facilities for handicapped passengers, high-speed wifi, separate arrival and departure areas, reservation halls, toilets, parcel and luggage office, operational and service accommodation and parking areas. There is one cloakroom as well at the first floor.
The station also has some modern amenities like
ATMs, a touch-screen
enquiry
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system, foreign exchange counters, commercial and maintenance offices, food plazas, and a computerised ticketing facility. Retiring rooms and
dormitories
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are also provided in the station building.
The terminal has a separate parcel loading facility, two escalators and six lifts and a special heritage gallery and custom-made subways which can be used by physically challenged passengers.
It will also be the only station in the
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
where loading and unloading of parcels, linen and food items will be carried out at the station yard and not in the platform as per the prevailing practise, to keep the platforms clean.
To enhance the use of
solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic e ...
under
National Solar Mission
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to generate electricity on its own; Vivaan Solar, a
company
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from
Gwalior
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was chosen to install 1.1 MW of
rooftop solar
A rooftop solar power system, or rooftop PV system, is a photovoltaic (PV) system that has its electricity-generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop of a residential or commercial building or structure. The various components of such a syste ...
project at the
railway station
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in 2016. The rooftop solar power project under
Public Private Partnership
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will be executed under design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) format. The company will also be responsible for maintaining the plant for the next 25 years. There is also a foot-over bridge for pedestrians which connects the railway station to the Delhi metro station at Anand Vihar. In 2020 the station was given a five star rating, the first in Delhi and third in India, for its food related facilities.
Redevelopment
Anand Vihar railway station set for a new makeover! Under
Piyush Goyal
Piyush Vedprakash Goyal (born 13 June 1964) is a politician, chartered accountant and cabinet minister of the Government of India having portfolios such as Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affa ...
-led Indian Railways’ ambitious station redevelopment plan, the
Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation
Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC) was a special purpose vehicle owned by the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), Ircon International and RITES. All three companies are owned by the Indian Ministry of Railways. I ...
(IRSDC) will soon be working on giving the Anand Vihar railway station a new look that will be similar to any airport. Revamping railway stations to not just look but also offer airport-like seamless travel experience is a big step taken by IRSDC. The corporation is taking up the Rs 224.48 crore project for the redevelopment of the Anand Vihar railway station which is expected to be completed in 2 years and 9 months after the project is awarded. Railway officials told Financial Express Online that the Anand Vihar Station is being awarded on the EPC or Engineering, Procurement and Construction mode.
Major Trains
*Major originating trains from Anand Vihar Railway Station are as follows:
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Agartala Tejas Rajdhani Express[ ]
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Naharlagun AC Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Baba Baidyanath Dham Humsafar Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Madhupur Humsafar Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Gorakhpur Humsafar Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Prayagraj Humsafar Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Ranchi Jharkhand Sampark Kranti Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Bhubaneswar Odisha Sampark Kranti Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Sealdah West Bengal Sampark Kranti Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Lucknow AC Double Decker Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Jaynagar Garib Rath Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Varanasi Garib Rath Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Bhagalpur Garib Rath Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Gaya Garib Rath Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Muzzafarpur Garib Rath Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Guwahati Northeast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Kamakhya Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Maldah Town Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Puri Neelachal Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Bhubaneswar Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Raxaul Satyagrah Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Raxaul Sathvavana Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Puri Nandan Kanan Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Mau Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Danapur Jan Sadharan Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Lalkuan Intercity Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Saharsa Poorbiya Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Gorakhpur Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Kanpur Central Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Motihari Champaran Satyagrah Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Jogbani Seemanchal Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Bhagalpur Vikramshila Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Santragachi Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Muzzafarpur Sapt Kranti Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Haldia Superfast Express
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Anand Vihar Terminal - Rewa Superfast Express
See also
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List of railway stations in India
This is a list of railway stations in India. The railway operations are managed by Indian Railways (IR) in the country.
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Sarai Rohilla
Delhi Sarai Rohilla railway station (station code: DEE) is situated about from old Delhi railway junction in India. It is managed by Delhi Division of Northern Railway zone. Many trains from Delhi to Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat st ...
References
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Railway stations in East Delhi district
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Railway stations opened in 2009
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2009 establishments in Delhi