Parcel Office, Kharagpur (KGP) railway station, Platform 4 - Kharagpur

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I1:32 PM I 3.3K0/s This Station is Really One Of the Best Stations &Have Ever Visited ! Very Clean, Very Safe, Very Huge and tWhat not Rharagpur Junction railway station is a railway station in Rharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the dndian state of tWest Bengal Rharagpur Function came up in 1999. On one side, Bengal Nagpur Railway's Rharagpur-Cuttack line was opened on New Year's Day in 1899. On the other hand, the opening of the bridge over the Rupnarayan River at Kolaghat, on 19 April 1900, connected Howrah with Rharagpur. Rharagpur was also linked with Sini the same year. The line was ready in 1898-99. The Rharagpur-Midnapore branch line was opened to traffic in 1901. Infrastructure After Gorakhpur, and Kollam junction in Rerala, Kharagpur has the world"s third longest railway platform with a length of 1,0T2.5 metres (3,519 ft). Remodelling of Gorakhpur railway station was completed and the new platform inaugurated on 6 October 2013. Till then Rharagpur boasted of the longest platform in the world for many years. Kharagpur also has the Asia's largest Railway Solid State dnterlocking ( SSI) system. Platform nos. I and 3, and 2 and 4 of Rharagpur Junction are contiguous. The 24 coach Coromandel Express stops at the start of platform no. 3 and its tail extends some distance into platform no. 1. ALOO Rhasa is one of the famous dish found at the Rharagpur railway platform. Background H is the busiest junction station in South Eastern Railway Jone after Howrah. Hence, it is termed as Cateway to South Eastern Railway. H is one of the fifty highest railway reservation in dndia. Jt is a junction which connects Howrah to Mumbai, Chennai, Adral Purulia and New Delhi via Tatanagar as well. H also connects Bhubaneshwar to New Delhi. Everyday approximately 2T5 trains pass through this station which includes freight traffic. In terms of passenger traffic it handles IT6 trains on a daily basis. So, in a bid to decongest Kharagpur station and speed up locomotives, South Eastern Railway has decided to develop Hijli ( close to dIT-Rharagpur ) as an alternative station for Rharagpur. In future, most of the new trains coming from Balasore side and going towards Adra or Tatanagar will stop at Hijli and bypass Rharagpur. In order to increase passenger commute between Rharagpur and Hijli, new EMU senvices have been introduced between these two stations.