Barkakana Junction railway station, (station code BRKA), serves

Barkakana Barkakana is a census town in the Patratu CD block in the Ramgarh subdivision of the Ramgarh district in the state of Jharkhand, India. Geography Location Barkakana is located at . It has an average elevation of . Barkakana is a small t ...

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 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, Barkakana–Danea and Barkakana–Ramgarh sections were electrified in 1996–97.

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{{North Chotanagpur Division topics Railway stations in India opened in 1927 Dhanbad railway division Ramgarh district Railway stations in Ramgarh district