Canning railway station (India)
Canning railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway halt station on the Sealdah–Canning line. It is under the jurisdiction of Sealdah railway division in Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. The station is situated at Canning in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. Being the terminal station of the Sealdah Canning branch line, it serves Canning town, Gosaba and Sundarban areas.History
The 45 km long line from Calcutta to Port Canning via Sonarpur, constructed in 1862 by the Calcutta and South-Eastern Railway, was the first railway track on the east bank of the Hooghly River. It ran from the then Beliaghata station to Canning on the Matla River. Sonarpur to Canning railway track including this railway station was electrified in 1965-66
