Tatanagar Junction Railway Station, station code TATA, is the main railway station serving the city of

Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (; ), also known as Tatanagar, is a major industrial city in eastern India. It is the List of cities in Jharkhand by population, largest city in the state of Jharkhand. With a population of 629,658 in the city limits and 1.3 million ...

in the Indian state of

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. It is located on the

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of the

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. It has 6 platforms and handles around 100 trains each day. On 26th February 2024, Prime Minister

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virtually lay the foundation stone for the re-development of the station at cost of ₹335 Crores.

History

The Tatanagar railway station was built in the early twentieth century. Sakchi was identified as the ideal site for an envisaged steel plant in December 1907. In 1910, the village Kalimati which was near Sakchi got itself a railway station on BNR's Howrah–Bombay route. The railway became the lifeline of the steel plant established by the Tatas. The name of the railway station was later changed to Tatanagar in honour of its founder

Jamsetji Tata Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate. He established the city of Jamshedpur. Born into a Zoroastrian Parsi family in ...

. Tatanagar–Rourkela section was the second 25 kV AC electrified section of the country, the first being Burdwan-Mughalsarai (in 1957). The city's importance as an industrial hub encouraged travel patterns linking to much of India via the station. During smallpox eradication efforts across 1974 the station became notorious among eradication staff as "the world's greatest exporter of smallpox", exporting as many as 300 outbreaks across India and Nepal. For the duration of the epidemic train services were instead diverted to checkpoints where passengers could be assessed for symptoms of smallpox.

Services

Tatanagar railway station lies on the

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–

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route, and serves routes to places such as

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, and

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. It is a large station of South Eastern Railway. It falls under South Eastern Railway zone and

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. More than a 100 trains ply this route on any given day. It is one of the busiest trunk routes section of Eastern India. It includes 6 platforms, 5 for major trains while one (platform near the washing line) is used for some passenger trains.

Trains

Tatanagar Junction served by several superfast, express, intercity and passenger trains from different cities, Following are some of the premium train services: * Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express * Mumbai CSMT–Howrah Duronto Express * Pune–Howrah Duronto Express * Tatanagar–Patna Vande Bharat Express * Tatanagar–Brahmapur Vande Bharat Express * Howrah–Rourkela Vande Bharat Express * Ranchi–Howrah Vande Bharat Express * Odisha Sampark Kranti Express * Howrah–Barbil Jan Shatabdi Express * Santragachi–Pune Humsafar Express * Santragachi–Rani Kamalapati Humsafar Express * Jabalpur–Santragachi Humsafar Express * Azad Hind Express

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Tatanagar Junction Map
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