Bori Bunder railway station
Bori Bunder railway station was a railway station, situated at Bori Bunder, Mumbai, Maharashtra, in India. It was from here that first passenger train of the subcontinent ran to Thane in 1853. This station was rebuilt as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus later in 1888.
Bori Bunder | |
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| Location | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India India |
| Coordinates | 18.9398°N 72.8355°E |
| Owned by | Central Railway |
| Other information | |
| Station code | BB |
| History | |
| Opened | 1853 |
| Closed | 1878 |
Construction
Built by the then Great Indian Peninsula Railway, this railway station takes its name from the nearby locality, Bori Bunder. On 16 April 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway operated the first passenger train in India from Bori Bunder to Thane with 14 carriages and 400 passengers. The train which had three named locomotives, viz., Sindh, Sultan and Sahib, took off and embarked on an hour-and-fifteen-minute journey to Thane.[1] The journey covered a distance of 24 miles (39 km), formally heralding the birth of the Indian Railways.[2]
Reconstruction
The station was eventually rebuilt as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) after Maharashtra's famed 17th-century king, Shivaji.[3]
References
- "First train run in India". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- "The first train in India (GIPR), 1853". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- Aruna, Tikekara (2006). The Cloister's Pale: A Biography of the University of Mumbai. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan. p. 64. ISBN 81-7991-293-0. Retrieved 10 May 2014.