Jhamatpur Baharan railway station is a railway station on the Howrah–Azimganj line 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

Jhamatpur Jhamatpur is a village in Ketugram II CD block in Katwa subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India Geography It is near Ketugram, 4 km east of Jhamatpur-Baharanpur, 157 km north from Howrah Station, on the B.A.K. ...

village,

Purba Bardhaman 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 ...

History

In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a

broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union (CIS ...

line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the

Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of this line were completely changed. Total 25 trains including few Passengers trains and

EMU The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ...

stop at Jhamatpur Baharan. Distance between

Howrah Howrah (, , alternatively spelled as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River opposite its twin city of Kolkata. Administratively it lies within Howrah district, and is th ...

and Jhamatpur Baharan railway station is approximately 158 km.

References

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