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| Location | Station Road, Bangaon, West Bengal, 743235 India | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 23°01′49″N88°49′59″E / 23.030372°N 88.832975°E /23.030372; 88.832975 | |||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 11 metres (36 ft) | |||||||||||||||
| System | Kolkata Suburban Railway | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Eastern Railway | |||||||||||||||
| Lines | Sealdah–Bangaon line Ranaghat–Bangaon section | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 6 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Standard (on ground station) | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | No | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Active | |||||||||||||||
| Station code | BNJ | |||||||||||||||
| Zone(s) | Eastern | |||||||||||||||
| Division(s) | Sealdah | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1884; 141 years ago (1884) | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1963–1964; 61 years ago (1964) with 25 kV overhead line | |||||||||||||||
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Bangaon Junction is aKolkata Suburban Railwayjunction station on theSealdah–Bangaon line andRanaghat–Bangaon line. It is located inNorth 24 Parganas district in theIndian state ofWest Bengal. It servesBangaon and its surrounding areas.
In 1882–84 the Bengal Central Railway Company constructed two lines: one fromDum Dum toKhulna, now inBangladesh, via Bangaon and the other linkingRanaghat and Bangaon.[1]
The Bengal Central Railway was formed in 1881 to construct and operate a line to Khulna. It was merged withEastern Bengal Railway in 1903.[2]
Dum Dum–Barasat–Ashoknagar–Habra–Gobardanga–Bangaon sector was electrified in 1963–64.[3]
In 2024,Ministry of Railways allocated₹29.54 crore (US$3.5 million) for the redevelopment purpose of this station under theAmrit Bharat Station Scheme.[4] After the redevelopment, the station will have a new aesthetically designed building, equipped with modern amenities like freeWi-Fi, drinking water facilities, upgraded toilets, more comfortable sitting chairs, AC Waiting rooms and escalators etc.[5]
In North line commuter trains run up toRanaghat Jn. (2 trains goes up to Shantipur & 1 train goes up to Lalgola at 8.27 am). In South line commuter trains run mostly up toSealdah viaBarasat Jn. Four trains run on circular route viaDum Dum Jn. and Ballygunge Jn. Three of them go up toMajerhat and one goes toCanning.Bandhan Express, connectingKolkata toKhulna (Bangladesh) also runs through this station on every Thursday.
| Train | Daily frequency |
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| Bongaon–Majerhat Local | 3 |
| Bongaon–Canning Local | 1 |
| Bongaon–Shantipur Jn Local | 1 |
| Bongaon–Ranaghat–Lalgola Passenger Special (EMU) | 1 |
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| Bandhan Express (13129/30) | 1 (weekly) |
Bangaon is the last station on the line, but the line goes up to the India–Bangladesh border and beyond.[6][7]
Petrapole, the Indian side of the international border, with a land customs station, handles more than half of the 4 billion dollar trade between India and Bangladesh. With the remote possibility of improvements in the narrow roads leading to the border, because of land acquisition problems, the focus is now on improving the rail transportation system.[8]
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