Kalyan Junction railway station

Kalyan Junction railway station is a major railway junction station on the central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, lying at the junction of the north-east and south-east lines of the suburban Mumbai division of the Central Railway, 54 km (34 mi) north-east of Mumbai. It is the 4th busiest railway junction in India.

Kalyan
Mumbai Suburban Railway station
Coordinates19.23525°N 73.1305°E / 19.23525; 73.1305
Elevation8.840 metres (29.00 ft)
Owned byIndian Railways
Line(s)Central Line
Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line
Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line
Mumbai-Chennai line
Bhusawal-Kalyan section
Mumbai Dadar–Solapur section
Platforms08
Construction
Structure typeStandard, on ground
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Other information
Station codeKYN
Fare zoneCentral Railway zone
ElectrifiedYes
Traffic
Passengers360,000/day
Services
Preceding station  
MSR		   Following station
Central Line
North-east branch
toward Kasara
Central Line
South-east branch
toward Khopoli
Location
Kalyan Junction
Location within Maharashtra

Infrastructure

There are 8 platforms at Kalyan station. Platform 2&3, 4&5 and 6&7 shares common platform base. Platform 4,5,6,7 serves for Express trains. Platform 5 serves for all Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station bound Fast local trains where Platform 4 serves for all Khopoli/Kasara bound Fast local trains.[1] Majority of trains towards Nashik side from chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus are stops at platform no. 4.

Platform 1 and Platform 1A are dedicated to local trains that start from Kalyan and go to CSMT

Loco Sheds

The Kalyan Electric Loco Shed and Kalyan Diesel Loco Shed are also located nearby. They are the lone sheds serving Mumbai region.

gollark: What? RAID is for disks, not RAM.
gollark: I think you'd have unusably high latency/low memory bandwidth.
gollark: Oh, the "Project December" thing?
gollark: I have not.
gollark: I mostly just wanted a slightly larger alternative to the 125M one I'm finetuning for a thing (my server has an especially underpowered GPU).

References
  1. Kalyan Jn IndiaRailInfo
  • Kalyan travel guide from Wikivoyage
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.