Hazaribagh Road is a railway station on the Grand Chord line of

East Central Railway The East Central Railway (abbreviated ECR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Hajipur and comprises Sonpur, Samastipur, Danapur, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, and Dhanbad divisions. History First set up on 8 Se ...

. The place is locally known as Sariya (or Suriya), in Sariya CD Block in Bagodar-Saria subdivision in

Giridih district Giridih district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwe ...

in the Indian state of

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . ...

Geography

Hazaribagh Road or Saria is located at .

Bagodar Bagodar is a village in the Bagodar CD block in the Bagodar-Saria subdivision of the Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Bagodar is located at . Area overview Giridih district is a part of the Chota Nagpur ...

on National Highway 19 (old numbering NH 2) /

Grand Trunk Road The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent ...

is and

Hazaribagh Hazaribagh is a city and a municipal corporation in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is the divisional headquarters of North Chotanagpur division. It is considered as a health resort and is also popular for Hazar ...

is from Hazaribagh Road.

History

With the extension of railways to

Barakar Barakar is a neighbourhood in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by the Asansol Municipal Corporation It is situated at the border of the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The Grand Trunk R ...

in 1856, that town became the railhead for the vast hinterland that lay beyond it. In 1871, was connected to Madhupur on the

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, through a branch line. Giridih served as the railhead for

and other places in the area till the Grand Chord line was laid. Hazaribagh Road station, along with the Grand Chord, was opened in February 1907 (1906 according to some railway related sources). While both Hazaribngh Road and were connected with Hazaribagh by metalled roads and they were about equally distant from what was then the headquarters of a large district. Hazaribagh Road was, however, the station ordinarily used, as it was considerably nearer to Kolkata.

Electrification

The Gomoh–Koderma sector was electrified in 1961–62.

References

External links

Train arrivals at Hazaribagh Road
{{North Chotanagpur Division topics Dhanbad railway division Railway stations in Giridih district Railway stations opened in 1907 Hazaribagh