Bilaspur Junction railway station

Bilaspur Junction
Indian Railway Junction Station
Old Station Building of Bilaspur built in 1890.
Location	Ahead budhwari bazzar, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India
Coordinates
Elevation	292.300 metres (958.99 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	South East Central Railway
Line(s)	Howrah line mumbai line Katni-Bilaspur line
Platforms	9
Tracks	18Broad gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Construction
Structure type	Standard (on ground station)
Parking	auto parking, rickshaw parking, taxi stand, bike stand, railway parking, vip parking, city bus terminal stop
Other information
Status	working
Station code	BSP
Zone(s)	South East Central Railway
Division(s)	Bilaspur railway division
History
Opened	1889
Electrified	1969–70
Previous names	Bengal Nagpur Railway
Traffic
Passengers	8 lacs
Location
Location of Bilaspur railway station in Chhattisgarh

Bilaspur Railway Station, located in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, serves Bilaspur in Bilaspur district. Bilaspur railway station is the 2nd busiest junction of central india after itarsi in madhya pradesh Bilaspur Railway Station has 3rd longest railway platform in India after Gorakhpur and Kharagpur.

• Gorakhpur Railway Station, Uttar Pradesh, India:1,366.33 m (4,483 ft)
• Kharagpur Railway Station, West Bengal, India: 1,072.5 m (3,519 ft)
• Bilaspur Railway Station, Chhattisgarh, India: 802 m (2,631 ft)

History

Bilaspur Railway Station came up in 1889 with the opening of Rajnandgaon to Bilaspur extension of erstwhile Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway taken over by Bengal Nagpur Railway and construction of the Nagpur-Asansol main line of Bengal Nagpur Railway, which opened in 1891. The station building was constructed in 1890. It became a station on the crosscountry Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line in 1900.

Electrification

The Rourkela-Bilaspur section was electrified in 1969-70 while Bilaspur-Nagpur in 1976-77 and Bilaspur-Katni in 1981.

Zonal HQ

Bilaspur is headquarters of South East Central Railway

Facilities

Bilaspur railway station is a complete, well handled and high quality facility providing A-1 grade station. It has got cloak room, AC and non AC dormitory, 1 AC and 1 non AC waiting room, a multifunctional complex and many other amenities. Even a medical shop is also provided at platform no 1. Escalators and lifts also started operations here in Jan 2012. There is facility of Battery Operated Golf Cars which serves to senior citizen, physically handicapped people.it has railway mall, cinema hall, stadium, it also has india s first misting system which flows water shower in summer season.

Busy station

Bilaspur Railway Station is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway. It is the busiest station of Chhattisgarh and second busiest of central India where about 340 (bilaspur + uslapur ) trains and goods trains (including both up and down directions) passes every day.

SOME QUALITY TRAINS howrah mumbai duranto express howrah pune duranto express howrah mumbai geetanali express bilaspur new delhi rajdhani express bilaspur amritsar chhattisgarh express raigarh nizamuddin gondwana express durg nizzamuddin sampark kranti express korba visakhapatnam link express korba yeswantpur wainganga express raipur lucknow (uslapur)gareebrath express bilaspur hapa express bilaspur trivendrum express bilaspur chennai express bilaspur ernakulam express raigarh gondia janshatabdi express ambikapur durg express (uslapur) chirmiri durg express (uslapur)

TOTAL RAILWAY STATION IN BILASPUR CITY bilaspur junction ( 310 trains stops on daily basis) uslapur junction (katni route trains stops here and new kawardha line too) gatoura (this station is used for north east bilaspurians and also by ntpc workers) dadhapara (this station is close to hi tech bus stand) chakarbhata (this station is used by judge , lawyers of chhattisgarh high court because of near to high court and also used by militry army and airport visiters)

References

Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) travel guide from Wikivoyage

Preceding station		Indian Railways		Following station
Gatora		South East Central Railway zone Tatanagar-Bilaspur section of Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line		Dadhapara
Uslapur		South East Central Railway zone Katni-Bilaspur branch line		Terminus