Eastern line (Kolkata Suburban Railway)


The Eastern line of Kolkata Suburban Railway is a public transit system serving Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It consists of 72 stations from Howrah Junction to Barddhaman & Sealdah to Gede. The entire line is at grade. It has two sections of quadruple tracks, First section is starting from Howrah Junction and ends at Barddhaman, Katwa, Goghat, Bandel and second section is starting from Sealdah and ends at Hasnabad, Bangaon, Gede, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat & Naihati stations in West Bengal.
The Eastern line consists of total 13 corridors, 5 Corridors in Howrah section and 7 corridors in Sealdah section and there's a separate corridor in this line for joining two sections. In Howrah Section first two corridors are from Howrah Jn to Barddhaman by Mainline and Second corridor is also from Howrah to Barddhaman by the chord line, after that, there are three branch lines, the first branch line is from Seoraphuli Junction to Goghat. The second branch line is from Bandel Jn to Katwa and the third branch line is from Barddhaman Jn to Katwa. Also in Sealdah section, the main line is from Sealdah to gede which it situates on the India-Bangladesh Border, First branch line is from Ranaghat Jn to Krishnanagar City Jn, Second branch line is from Kalinarayanpur Jn to Krishnanagar City Jn via Shantipur, Third Branch line is from Ranaghat to Bangaon, fourth branch line is from Dum Dum Jn to Bangaon, Fifth branch line is from Barasat to Hasnabad, the sixth branch line is from Kalyani to Kalyani Simanta. The Bandel Naihati branch line is an important linkage for two sections of the eastern line.
The Major Car Sheds on this line is at Howrah, Bandel, Narkeldanga, Barasat and Ranaghat on both of the sections.

Stations with Routes

Routes

The Eastern line consists of the following sections with routes:
1) Howrah Jn – Barddhaman
2) Howrah Jn – Barddhaman
3) Seoraphuli Jn – Goghat
4) Bandel – Katwa
5) Barddhaman – Katwa
6) Howrah Jn – Belur Math
1) Sealdah – Gede
2) Ranaghat Jn – Krishnanagar City Jn
3) Kalinarayanpur Jn – Shantipur – Krishnanagar City Jn
4) Kalyani – Kalyani Simanta
5) Ranaghat Jn – Bangaon Jn
6) Dum Dum Jn – Bangaon Jn
7) Barasat – Hasnabad
8) Bandel – Naihati line

Stations

Names in bold indicate that the station is a fast train stop as well as important terminal.

Howrah Section

†Howrah Junction railway station is a terminus for South Eastern Railway and Eastern Railway.
Howrah Section Main line Branches
The Howrah Section main line of Eastern line, there is a bifurcation in three sections and one line bifurcates and elevates on it.
Belur Math Branch line
Chord line
West Elevated Branch line
North Branch line
North East Branch line

Sealdah Section

Sealdah Section Main line Branches
The main line branches in Sealdah Section is bifurcates into many lines:
Northern Branch line
Mid East Branch line
Kalyani Branch line
Mid North East Branch line
East Branch line
Hooghly Branch line

Electrification

From 1957, The Eastern Railway Started Electrification at Howrah - Tarakeswar Route with 1500 V DC later it was converted to 25000 V AC 50 Hz in 1967-68, after that the work goes also on the chord line, Barddhaman & Bandel To Katwa line of Howrah Division, which is now fully electrified.
And on the Sealdah Division of Eastern Railway, the electrification process was started in 1963 from Sealdah to Ranaghat line, Dum Dum To Bangaon and the other lines in this division with the different phases and completed up to 1965 from that time the whole division is also fully electrified.

Services

Currently in 2017-18 all services of the Eastern line running on 9 and 12 Cars. Sealdah section has 461 Services of 9 rakes EMU and 452 Services of 12 Rakes EMU and also on Howrah Section has 398 Services of 12 Rakes EMU. Which It Handles the 100% Suburban Network of Eastern Railways.

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