Hubballi Junction railway station
Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji Hubballi Junction Railway Station, is a railway junction station under Hubballi railway division of South Western Railway zone of Indian Railways situated in Hubballi, Karnataka, India. The platform number 1 of Hubballi Junction has a length of 1,507 metres, making it the longest railway platform in the world as of 2023.
SSS Hubballi Junction Railway Station has three entrances to get into station. One is the main entrance, the other in front of Central Railway Hospital of Gadag road, and the third one few metres ahead of main entrance i.e near yard. The station has an interesting platform bifurcation. It has total 8 platforms, five of them are alike other stations i.e one beside the other, and the other three in the next entry. The longest platform is divided into two parts, it has platform no 1 and 8 on same platform.
Description
Hubballi Junction is center place for transportation of public and commercial in Karnataka by connecting northwest to Mumbai, west to Goa, South to Bengaluru and east to Hyderabad with heavy mass transportation.It is the busiest railway station in Karnataka after KSR Bengaluru. The Hubballi division situated in Hubballi city connects Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and more.
Commercial goods such as manganese are the main source of income, with public transport being secondary.
The Hubballi Junction has Goods Shed, Diesel Loco Shed, Carriage Repair Workshop, Train Yard, and many more of Railways. The station was opened in the late 19th century c. 1886-87 by the British Company; it is currently one of the oldest railway stations in the state. It was an important station for both passengers as well as goods from the old era itself. It has major importance in the South Western Railway jurisdiction. It has connection to almost every part of India, Bengaluru, Chennai, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, New Delhi, Varanasi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Madgaon-Vasco-Goa and many more. The station is the second busiest in the zone after Bengaluru.