Bareilly Junction railway station

Bareilly Junction railway station (station code:- BE, BRY) is a railway station  serving Bareilly city in Uttar Pradesh. It is an important station as well as the headquarters of Izzatnagar railway division of the North Eastern Railway zone & Moradabad railway division of the Northern Railway zone.[1][2][3] It lies on Lucknow–Moradabad line and provides a stop for most trains passing through. Bareilly Junction used to serve both broad and metre gauge, but now the metre gauge is converted into broad gauge.[4][5][6]


Bareilly Junction
Commuter rail, Regional rail
Main entrance of Bareilly Junction
LocationCivil Lines, Maholla Jasoli, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh,
 India
Coordinates28°20′13″N 79°24′39″E
Elevation174 metres (571 ft)
Owned byIndian Railways
Operated byNorthern Railways,
North Eastern Railways
Line(s)
  • Bareilly–Rampur–Muradabad line ,
  • Bareilly–Bhojipura–Pilibhit line,
  • Bareilly–Badaun–Kasganj line,
  • Bareilly–Shahjahanur–Lucknow line,
  • Bareilly–Chandausi–Aligarh line,
  • Bareilly–Bhojipura–Kathgodam line
Platforms6
Tracks8
ConnectionsCentral Bus Station, Taxi stand, Auto stand
Construction
Structure typeStandard on ground
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled access Available
Other information
StatusFunctioning
Station codeBE,
BRY
Zone(s) Northern Railway zone,
North Eastern Railway zone
Division(s) Moradabad,
Izzatnagar
History
Opened1964 (1964)
ElectrifiedYes
Passengers
400,000
Location
Bareilly Junction
Location within Uttar Pradesh
Bareilly Junction
Bareilly Junction (India)

History

After the British Indian Government purchased the Indian Branch Railway on 31 March 1872, and renamed the Lucknow–Kanpur main line as the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, railway services started to expand towards the west of Lucknow. The construction of a railway line from Lucknow to Sandila and then further onwards to Hardoi was completed in 1872.[7] This line was further extended to Bareilly on 1 November 1873.[7] Prior to that, another railway line connecting Moradabad to Chandausi had already been built in 1872; it too was extended to Bareilly, the construction completed on 22 December 1873.[7]

A new railway line connecting Bareilly and Moradabad via Rampur, called the Bareilly–Moradabad Chord, was approved on 4 December 1891, and was completed by 8 June 1894.[7] On 8 December 1894, the main line was officially diverted to this chord, while the older line was renamed the Chandausi loop.[7]

Connectivity

Bareilly railway station is well connected to Lucknow, Delhi, Jammu, Amritsar, Ambala, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Ludhiana, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Mau, Ghazipur, Howrah, Guwahati, Ranchi, Patna, Agra, Moradabad, Dehradun, Allahabad, Kathgodam, Mumbai, Jaipur.

Metro

The station is also proposed as an intersection for the planned Bareilly Metro routes and a terminal station for Yellow line.

Line First operational Stations Length
(km)		 Terminals
  Yellow linePlanned2021.54Bareilly JunctionBhojipura Central
  • Bareilly Junction front view
  • Bareilly Junction
  • Bareilly Junction platform
  • Bareilly Junction taxi stand at night

See also

References
  1. Northeastern Railway
  2. Rao 1988, p. 37
  3. "Chapter 1 – Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background". Ministry of Railways website. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009.
  4. "Bareilly Jn Trains, Bareilly Jn Railway Timetable". www.ndiantrains.org. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012.
  5. "Meerut City-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express". indiarailinfo. 7 February 2010.
  6. "Mumbai LTT Bareilly Express". indiarailinfo.
  7. "The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway" (PDF). Management E-books6. Retrieved 30 May 2013.


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