- Source: Barkakana Junction railway station
Barkakana Junction railway station, (station code BRKA), serves Barkakana and the surrounding coal mining areas in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It comes under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway zone.
History
In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh–Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later, these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway. In the same year (1927), Bengal Nagpur Railway opened the 116-kilometre (72 mi) Muri–Barkakana section to traffic. The 57 km-long Hazaribagh–Barkakana section was opened for passenger trains on 7 December 2016 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das
Electrification
Barkakana–Garhwa, Barkakana–Danea and Barkakana–Ramgarh sections were electrified in 1996–97.
Facilities
Trains
Patna–Ranchi Vande Bharat Express
Tatanagar–Patna Vande Bharat Express (one day in a week)
Ranchi–New Delhi Garib Rath Express
Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express (via Barkakana)
Visakhapatnam–Banaras Express
Ranchi–Varanasi Express
Ranchi–Chopan Express
Shaktipunj Express
Tatanagar–Jammu Tawi Express
Sambalpur–Jammu Tawi Express
Palamu Express
Howrah–Bhopal Weekly Express
Santragachi–Ajmer Weekly Express
Kolkata–Madar Express (Weekly Express)
Ahmedabad–Kolkata Express (Weekly express)
And many more express, passenger and intercity train run through this station.
Nearest airports
Birsa Munda Airport (53 Km)
Bokaro Airport (85 Km)
Dhanbad Airport (130 Km)
Sonari Airport (167 Km)
References
External links
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Barkakana Junction railway station
- Muri Junction railway station
- Koderma Junction railway station
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh railway station
- Asansol Junction railway station
- Gaya Junction railway station
- Chandrapura Junction railway station
- Hazaribagh Town railway station
- Railway stations in Jharkhand
- Son Nagar Junction railway station
