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Ballygunge Junction railway station is one of the busiest railway stations in the Sealdah railway division. More than 150 pairs of EMU local trains pass through the railway station on a daily basis. It is situated in Ballygunge, Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Ballygunge and the surrounding areas. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In 1840, Emily Eden called Ballygunge 'our Eltham or Lewisham'. It also emerged as a citadel of the educated Bengali middle class after the suburban railway opened up the area. [4] In 1888, Ballygunge and Tollygunge had a combined thana (police station). [4]
The first breakthrough for the locality came with the construction of the Bijon Setu in 1978, a rail overbridge above the railway tracks right next to the Ballygunge Junction railway station. This has brought Kasba closer to the Kolkata mainstream and also resulted in quite a number of people finding the locality habitable. [4] [5]
Rashbehari Avenue (known as Main Sewer Road or Ballygunge Avenue till 1929) [1] is one of the most prestigious and important east–west avenues of Kolkata, India.A major portion of this road is often commonly referred to as Gariahat, the prime shopping and aristocratic residential neighbourhood of south Kolkata.
Population below 6 years was 1,131. The total number of literates in Ward No. 90 was 14,997 (84.60% of the population over 6 years). [8] Kolkata is the second most literate district in West Bengal. [9] The literacy rate of Kolkata district has increased from 53.0% in 1951 to 86.3% in the 2011 census. [10]
It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Dakshin Barasat railway station is situated beside Baruipur-Kulpi Road, Beladanga, Dakshin Barasat, South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. [1] [2]
On 2 October 2019, A local train coming from Masagram was derailed, when it was entering on Platform no.6 of Howrah railway station. No casualties were reported. This incident happened around 8:10 pm . [78] On 15 March 2020, a massive fire broke out in the Salimpur slum area which lies near the Dhakuria railway station track at around 8:30 am ...
In 1890, the Eastern Bengal Railway constructed a 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)-wide broad-gauge railway from Ballygunge Junction to Budge Budge. [3]In 2013, the station was renamed from Budge Budge to commemorate the martyrs of the Komagata Maru incident who fell to British bullets near the station.