Nagpur Railway Station

Nagpur Railway Station
Nagpur Railway Station
General information
Town or city Nagpur
Country India
Completed 1867[1]

Nagpur Railway Station is a railway station in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

The Nagpur railways constitute a very significant part of the transport and communication system in the city of Nagpur in Maharashtra. Many people from the rest of the country and abroad, visit the city of Nagpur to spend a vacation or on a work-related tour. For these frequent visitors to the city, the railways of Nagpur along with the airways and the roadways, are of immense importance.

Some important trains that are available at the Nagpur railway station are the Vishakapatnam Nizamudin Samta Express, the Banglore Nizamudin Rajdhani Express, the Mumbai Howrah Mail and the Bangalore Gorakpur Express.

The railways at Nagpur were established a long time back well before the independence of India, as Nagpur used to be an important city of India even in those days. 1867 marks the beginning of the Nagpur railways. In the year 1881, the city of Nagpur was linked up with another important city of India, Kolkata, via the railways of the state of Chhattisgarh.

The original railway station of Nagpur was previously located towards the east of its current site. The present-day railway station of Nagpur was also put up in the pre-independence days. being established in 1924.

The railways in Nagpur are important not only because the city is one of the tourist destinations of the country and the second capital of the significant state of Maharashtra, but also because of its prime location. The railway station has a central location in the entire country and hence is strategically very important not only in the state but in the entire subcontinent of India.[2]

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Modernization

The Indian Railways has identified 22 stations in India which can be upgraded to international standard and Nagpur is one of those.

Making this announcement at a "meet the press" programme at the divisional railway manager's office on Tuesday, Sowmya Raghavan, general manager, Central Railway, said: "I'd see to it that the city gets the best of passenger amenities." Raghvan, who was on her first official to city as general manager CR, asserted that central railway has even identified priority areas like security, safety and cleanliness. “We plan to install CCTVs and metal detectors on all sensitive stations in the entire zone. My commitment is that passengers should have a feel of the facilities when they enter the station. We’ll instil a sense of behaviour among the front-line staff too as to how to behave with the commuters,” said Raghvan.

The general manager, who inspected the 140-km stretch between Ballarshah and Nagpur, further said: "There's great demand to start new trains but I've no powers to start those. I can only forward such proposals to the railway board — the one which we did to make triweekly Nagpur-Pune Express into a daily train. The decision is expected in this railway budget."

Once again, hopes to develop Ajni railway station into a terminus were dashed. Raghvan was non-committal on the issue but could only say that it would be developed as a coaching complex. "If you plan to increase trains from Nagpur in future, we would need a coaching complex to maintain these trains and Ajni would be developed on these lines. A Rs 8.9 crore proposal has already been sent to the board," the top official asserted. "Ajni is hardly 2.8 km from Nagpur station and as such it can't be developed as a second station after Nagpur," she added.

When asked about her assessment of the division, she was all praise for the officials but also said that she asked them to overcome certain shortcomings too.[3]

Facilities

The waiting area for passengers on platform No. 1 covers a large area. The main complex has waiting and retiring rooms for passengers awaiting connecting trains. It also has 'Comesum', the IRCTC authorized multicuisine food plaza in the main building having sitting capacity of 150 people.

The Retiring Rooms are available at the rent rates of 250 Rupees, for those with air conditioning and 200 Rupees without.

Trains

Following are the trains which operates from the Nagpur Railway Station.[4] More passing trains from Nagpur, are available for Bhopal via. Itarsi Junction, Gwalior, Jabalpur via. Balaghat Junction, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Agra, Benaras, Rajkot, Surat and almost, all the destinations throughout the India.

Train Number Train Name Destination Station
2159 NAGPUR JABALPUR SUPER EXPRESS Jabalpur Junction, ( Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh)
1454 PRERANA EXPRESS Ahmedabad
236B NAGPUR ITARSI PASSENGER Itarsi
2140 SEWAGRAM EXPRESS Dadar
2914 INDORE NAGPUR TRISHATABDI EXPRESS Indore
2924 NAGPUR INDORE (SUPER FAST) EXPRESS Indore
2930 INDORE SUPER FAST AC DELUX (Cancelled)

Indore Junction via. Betul - Multai - Amla Jn. - Itarsi Jn. - Bhopal Jn. - Dewas Jn.

1440 (Cancelled and 8240 NAGPUR BILASPUR EXPRESS introduced) NAGPUR JABALPUR EXPRESS Jabalpur
2135 NAGPUR PUNE EXPRESS Nagpur
2114 NAGPUR - PUNE GARIB RATH Nagpur

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