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Kolkata Circular Railway, also known as the Kolkata Chakra Rail (Bengali: কলকাতা চক্র রেল), is a 36.20 km (22.49 mi) long railway loop line operated by the Sealdah division of the Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways, encircling the city of Kolkata. [1]
The railway system is open from about 0400 to 0100 and has an average daily ridership of 2-3 million commuters. It is the biggest suburban rail network in India, with a record of 400+ stations and a total of 1,501 km (933 mi); it is the world's 7th longest suburban railway network. [citation needed]
The first train of the East Indian Railway, 1854. The Kolkata Suburban Railway is an offshoot of the second passenger railway to be built by the British in India. [1] The first train ran between Howrah and Hooghly stations on 15 August 1854 and was operated by the East Indian Railway (EIR).
The Eastern lines of Kolkata Suburban Railway comprises 14 Local train routes that are operated by the Eastern Railway zone, serving the Kolkata metropolitan region and its neighbouring areas in West Bengal, India. The Line consists of a total 266 stations and the entire line is at grade.
It is operated by 2 subsidiaries of Indian Railways, the Metro Railway, Kolkata and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation. Kolkata Metro Line 3 viaduct along the Diamond Harbour Road. Kolkata Metro Line 1 (Blue Line) is under the administration of Metro Railway, Kolkata. It has the status of a Zonal Railway and is directly run by the Indian Railways ...
The first-ever mode of the urban rail transit system in India was commuter rail (or suburban rail), built in Mumbai on 16 April 1853. The first passenger train was flagged off from Bori Bunder (present-day Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai ) from where it travelled to Thane , covering a distance of 34 km in an hour and fifteen minutes.
Eden Gardens is a railway station in Kolkata under the Kolkata Circular Railway (Chakra Rail) system.It belongs to the Eastern Railway.The station code is EDG. [1] [2] The station gets its name due to its proximity to the famous cricket stadium Eden Gardens of the same name.
The number of suburban trains is lower than long-distance trains. This station runs many long-distance express trains including two pairs of Garib Rath Express, Khwaja Garib Nawaz Madar–Kolkata Express etc. and one long-distance passenger train – Lalgola Passenger. There are five platforms, among them Platform 1 & 2 is used by only suburban ...