Dankuni Junction railway station
Dankuni Junction railway station is an important railway station serving Kolkata metropolitan area, Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Dankuni lies on the Howrah–Bardhaman chord line. This railway station is one of the important railway station that serves Kolkata Metropolis, alongwith,,, and. Dankuni has significantly reduced the traffic congestion of Howrah railway station by emerging as a major halting point in Kolkata Metropolis for those mail and express trains plying to and fro the southern states of India to the Eastern India and Northeast India which previously use to run via.
History
The Howrah–Bardhaman chord, a shorter link to Bardhaman from Howrah than the Howrah–Bardhaman main line, was constructed in 1917. In 1932, the Calcutta chord line was built over the Willingdon Bridge joining Dum Dum and Dankuni.Major Trains
Major trains running from Dankuni railway station are as follows:● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal –Agartala Humsafar Express
● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Alipurduar Amrit Bharat Express
● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Malda Town Amrit Bharat Express
● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Guwahati Kaziranga Superfast Express
● Sir M.Visvesvaraya Terminal - New Tinsukia Express
● Sir M.Visvesvaraya Terminal - Balurghat Express
● Sir M.Visvesvaraya Terminal - Radhikapur Express
● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Bhagalpur Anga Express
● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Muzaffarpur Express
● Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Jasidih Express
● Tiruchchirappalli–New Jalpaiguri Amrit Bharat Express
● Nagercoil–New Jalpaiguri Amrit Bharat Express
● Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express
● Silchar - Coimbatore Superfast Express
● Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express
● Silchar–Secunderabad Express
● Kamakhya - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Karmabhoomi Express