Bilaspur Junction railway station
Bilaspur Junction railway station, located in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, serves Bilaspur in Bilaspur district.History
The 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 RailwayBusy station
Bilaspur Railway Station is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway. as about 340 passenger trains and goods trains passes every day.Important Trains
- 12441/Bilaspur - New Delhi Rajdhani Express
- 12101/Bilaspur - Howrah Mumbai Janeshwari Delux Express
- 12129/Bilaspur - Howrah Pune Azad Hind Express
- 12809/Bilaspur - Howrah Mumbai MAIL SuperFast Express
- 12855/Bilaspur - Nagpur InterCity Express
- 18029/Bilaspur - LTT-Shalimar Kurla Express
- 22815/Bilaspur - Ernakulam Superfast Express
- 12851/Bilaspur - Chennai Central Superfast Express
- 22619/Tirunelveli−Bilaspur Express
- For other train details please visit Indian Railway web site indianrail.gov.in'''
Achievements
Bilaspur Junction railway station has many achievements:
- Bilaspur Junction is third cleanest railway station and cleanest zonal headquarter railway station Of India.
- Here is fourth longest railway platform in Bilaspur Junction.
