Barkakana Junction railway station
Barkakana Junction railway station, serves Barkakana and the surrounding coal mining areas in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It comes under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway zone.
History
In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh–Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later, these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway. In the same year, Bengal Nagpur Railway opened the Muri–Barkakana section to traffic. The 57 km-long Hazaribagh–Barkakana section was opened for passenger trains on 7 December 2016 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar DasElectrification
Barkakana–Garhwa, Barkakana–Danea and Barkakana–Ramgarh sections were electrified in 1996–97.Rating
- Overall 3.8/5
- cleanliness - good /10
- porters/escalators - average /10
- food - average /10
- transportation - good /10
- lodging - average /10
- safety - good /10
Trains
No. of Originating trains- 9- Patna–Ranchi Vande Bharat Express
- Tatanagar–Patna Vande Bharat Express
- Ranchi–New Delhi Garib Rath Express
- Dhanbad-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express Special
- Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express (via Barkakana)
- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Gaya Weekly Superfast Express
- Visakhapatnam–Banaras Express
- Ranchi–Varanasi Express
- Ranchi–Chopan Express
- Shaktipunj Express
- Tatanagar–Jammu Tawi Express
- Sambalpur–Jammu Tawi Express
- Palamu Express
- Howrah–Bhopal Weekly Express
- Santragachi–Ajmer Weekly Express
- Kolkata–Madar Express
- Ahmedabad–Kolkata Express
- Asansol - Hatia Express