Dhatrigram railway station is a railway station on

Bandel–Katwa line The Bandel–Katwa line is a long railway line connecting Bandel in Hooghly district and Katwa in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India. It is a major route for North bound trains from Howrah and forms a part of the Kolkata Suburba ...

connecting from to Katwa, and under the jurisdiction of

Howrah railway division Howrah railway division is one of the four railway divisions under Eastern Railway zone and South Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 1854 and its headquarter is located at Howrah in the state of West Beng ...

Eastern Railway zone The Eastern Railway (abbreviated ER) is among the 19 zones of the Indian Railways. Its headquarters is at Fairley Place, Kolkata and comprises four divisions: , , , and . Each division is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager (DRM). The name o ...

. It is situated at Niralgachhi, Dhatrigram,

Purba Bardhaman district Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...

in the Indian state of

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 ...

. Number of

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and few Passenger trains stop at Dhatrigram railway station.

History

The Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a line from

Bandel Bandel is a neighbourhood in the Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is founded by Portuguese settlers and falls under the jurisdiction of Chandernagore Police Commissionerate. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Me ...

to Katwa in 1913. This line including Dhatrigram railway station was electrified in 1994–96 with 25 kV overhead line.

References

Railway stations in Purba Bardhaman district Kolkata Suburban Railway stations Howrah railway division {{WestBengal-railstation-stub