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| Location | Dum Dum Rd,Kolkata,West Bengal 700030 India | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°37′16″N88°23′35″E / 22.621142°N 88.393157°E /22.621142; 88.393157 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 9.61 metres (31.5 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| System |  Indian Railways andKolkata Suburban Railwayjunction station | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Eastern Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Dum Dum | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Not available | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Available | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Not available | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Active | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Station code | DDJ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zone(s) | Eastern Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division(s) | Sealdah | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1862; 163 years ago (1862) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1963–1965; 60 years ago (1965) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Eastern Bengal Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dum Dum Junction (DDJ) is aKolkata Suburban Railway junction station inKolkata. Three lines branch out from Dum Dum in the north direction–theKolkata Eastern line toGede, the Calcutta chord line toDankuni and theSealdah–Hasnabad–Bangaon–Ranaghat line toBangaon andHasnabad. On the other hand, in the south direction, those three lines go towardsSealdah, while theKolkata Circular Railway line arises from it towardsPatipukur, and also ends to it throughBidhannagar Road after encircling the city of Kolkata through various important stations likeKolkata railway station andMajerhat. TheDum Dum metro station of theBlue Line is adjacent to Dum Dum Jn. railway station. It servesSinthee,Cossipore,Nagerbazar and surrounding Dum Dum areas.[1]
The Calcutta Sealdah–Kusthia line ofEastern Bengal Railway was opened to traffic in 1862.[2] Eastern Bengal Railway worked on the eastern side of theHooghly River, which in those days there was nobridge.[3]
In 1882–84 the Bengal Central Railway Company constructed two lines: one from Dum Dum toKhulna present day which is inBangladesh, via Bangaon and the other linkingRanaghat andBangaon.[4] The Bengal Central Railway was formed in 1881 to construct and operate a line toKhulna. Later, it was merged withEastern Bengal Railway in 1903.[5]
The 33.06 km (21 mi) long5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)broad gauge line fromBarasat toHasnabad was constructed between 1957 and 1962.[6] In 1932, theCalcutta Chord line was built over theWillingdon Bridge joining Dum Dum andDankuni.[4]
In 2024,Ministry of Railways allocated₹7.98 crore (US$940,000) for the redevelopment purpose of this station under theAmrit Bharat Station Scheme.[7]
The Sealdah–Ranaghat line and the Dum Dum–Barasat–Ashok Nagar–Bangaon line were electrified in 1963–64. Further, the Dum Dum–Dankuni sector was electrified in 1964–65.[8]
Platform 1 mostly handles trains in the Up Sealdah Main Line sections. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Dankuni chord line, Sealdah-Baruipara local, Sealdah-Bangaon section.
Platform 2 only handles Down Sealdah bound trains in the Sealdah-Main Line section and almost all trains from Dankuni and Baruipara and a few from the Bangaon-Sealdah section.
Platform 3 mostly handles Up train in the Sealdah-Dankuni chord line section, Sealdah-Baruipara local, the Sealdah-Bangaon section, Kolkata-Lalgola MEMU and Sealdah-Lalgola Passenger and MEMU trains. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Main Line section and trains coming from Budge Budge, Majerhat through Ballygunge Junction.
Platform 4 mostly handles trains in the Sealdah bound trains in the Bangaon-Sealdah section. It also handles a few Dankuni-Sealdah trains and also handles trains from Majerhat and Ballygunge through Princep Ghat joining the Sealdah-Main Line section(and sometimes the reverse route too) and down passengers trains coming from Lalgola.
It mostly handles trains coming from or going to Princep Ghat, although Princep Ghat is not the terminus for trains passing through this platform. TheBangaon-Canning local also stops by this platform.
Dum Dum railway station handles 576,000 passengers daily.[9]
Being an important railway junction station in the Sealdah Division of the Eastern Railways, Dum Dum Junction serves as an important halt to many long-distance trains including:
It is connected withDum Dum metro station ofBlue Line viasubways.
Autos are available towardsNagerbazar, Chiriamore,Patipukur, 30A Bus stand,Sinthee More and RG Kar Hospital.
Bus route numbers 30B, 202, S-168 (Mini), S10, AC 38, D-39 etc. serve the station viaDum Dum Road.[10][11]
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is connected via Dum Dum Rd and Jessore Rd; distance between Dumdum junction and the airport is 5.6 km.
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Kolkata/Northern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage
