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Shalimar Rail Yard
Shalimar rail yard served as a terminus for goods trains and hosted a rail yard since its inception in 1883. In recent years, it has been brought into the network of passenger train stations, developing into Shalimar Station, to reduce pressure on Howrah Station. Apart from suburban trains, few long-distance trains have been introduced or moved over here (from Howrah station). It is under Kharagpur railway division. Shalimar still serves as an important transshipment point in Kolkata. Shalimar also has port side domestic container terminals. An additional container terminal is also proposed there. See also *Shalimar Station References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalimar Railway Goods Yard - Howrah 2012-07-02 01460
Shalimar or Shalamar refers to three historic royal gardens (or Baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia: * Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619 * Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan; a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in 1641 * Shalimar Bagh, Delhi, India; built in 1653 Shalimar may also refer to: South Asia * Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad, an area in Ghaziabad * Shalimar, Lahore, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan ** Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences *** Shalamar Hospital *** Shalamar Medical and Dental College * Shalimar railway station, serving Howrah and Kolkata * Shalimar Express, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India * Shalimar Express (Pakistan), train between Karachi and Lahore Other places * Shalimar, alternative name of Shadmehr, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Shalimar, Florida, a town in the United States Music * Shalamar, a soul-R&B group * "Kashmiri Song" (1902), also known by its first line "Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalimar Station
Shalimar railway station is one of five intercity railway stations serving Howrah and Kolkata, India. The other stations are in Kolkata, Kolkata station in Kolkata, Howrah Station in Howrah and Santragachi in Howrah. Shalimar station is situated at Shalimar, in Shibpur area of Howrah. It is one of the cleanest, most well-maintained and non-congested railway terminals in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. History The place where now the station is situated was formerly a very small rail station, and served by some diesel loco hauled trains. The present platforms were occupied by some goods lines. Those lines were a part of large Shalimar rail yard. In 2000, the first plan was conceived to use this area as a bigger rail station. The rapidly growing long-distance passengers were gradually overcrowding the Howrah station. Due to the limitation of space, new platform construction is restricted at Howrah. Although 3 new platforms (17, 22 & 23) were constructed at Howrah during 2006 &nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howrah Station
Howrah railway station, also known as Howrah Junction, is a railway station located in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. It is also the oldest and largest existing railway complex in India. It is one of the busiest train stations in the world (second busiest in India after Sealdah). About 600 passenger trains pass through the station each day, utilising its 24 platforms, and serving more than one million passengers per day. About 450 are suburban local trains, while 107 are coaching trains out of which 9 are trains with more than 24 coaches. Out of the 24 platforms, 10 are long enough to cater to trains with more than 24 coaches. Goods and parcel trains also originate and terminate here. The Howrah–Barddhaman main line is the busiest line that connects this station. Howrah is one of five intercity train stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area (including Howrah and its twin city of Kolkata), the others being , , and Kolkata railway station. The book ''Vibran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharagpur
Kharagpur () is a planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision. It is the largest, most populated, multicultural and cosmopolitan city of the district.It is located 120 kms west of state capital Kolkata and 1300 kms south east of national capital New Delhi. The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kharagpur), one of the Institutes of National Importance, was founded in Kharagpur in May 1950. It has one of the largest railway workshops in India, and the fourth longest railway platform in the world (1072.5 m). Also it is the headquarters of the Kharagpur Division of South Eastern Railway. History Kharagpur received its name from the twelfth king of the Mallabhum dynasty, Kharga Malla, when he conquered it. Kharagpur was a part of the Hijli Kingdom and ruled by Hindu Odia rulers as a feudatory under Gajapati Kings of Odisha. Historians claim that in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalimar
Shalimar or Shalamar refers to three historic royal gardens (or Baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia: * Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619 * Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan; a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in 1641 * Shalimar Bagh, Delhi, India; built in 1653 Shalimar may also refer to: South Asia * Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad, an area in Ghaziabad * Shalimar, Lahore, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan ** Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences *** Shalamar Hospital *** Shalamar Medical and Dental College * Shalimar railway station, serving Howrah and Kolkata * Shalimar Express, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India * Shalimar Express (Pakistan), train between Karachi and Lahore Other places * Shalimar, alternative name of Shadmehr, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Shalimar, Florida, a town in the United States Music * Shalamar, a soul-R&B group * "Kashmiri Song" (1902), also known by its first line "Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commercial, and financial hub of East India, Eastern India and the main port of communication for North-East India. According to the 2011 Indian census, Kolkata is the List of cities in India by population, seventh-most populous city in India, with a population of 45 lakh (4.5 million) residents within the city limits, and a population of over 1.41 crore (14.1 million) residents in the Kolkata metropolitan area, Kolkata Metropolitan Area. It is the List of metropolitan areas in India, third-most populous metropolitan area in India. In 2021, the Kolkata metropolitan area crossed 1.5 crore (15 million) registered voters. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Container Terminals
A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a ''maritime container port''. Alternatively, the transshipment may be between land vehicles, typically between train and truck, in which case the terminal is described as an ''inland container port''. In November 1932, the first inland container port in the world was opened by the Pennsylvania Railroad company in Enola, Pennsylvania. Port Newark-Elizabeth on the Newark Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey is considered the world's first maritime container port. On April 26, 1956, the Ideal X was rigged for an experiment to use standardized cargo containers that were stacked and then unloaded to a compatible truck chassis at Port Newark. The concept had been developed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Transport In Howrah
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