Puri railway station

Puri railway station is a terminal train station and serves Puri, the seashore temple city in the Indian state of Odisha.

History

The Khurda Road–Puri section was opened to traffic on 1 February 1897. The railway station was renovated in 2012 into a more traditional Hindu temple structure with more facilities.

PM Modi will pay the foundation stone of the redevelopment work of Puri Railway Station.

Railway reorganization

The Bengal Nagpur Railway was nationalized in 1944.Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 with the portion of East Indian Railway Company east of Mughalsarai and the Bengal Nagpur Railway. In 1955, South Eastern Railway was carved out of Eastern Railway. It comprised lines mostly operated by BNR earlier. Amongst the new zones started in April 2003 were East Coast Railway and South East Central Railway. Both these railways were carved out of South Eastern Railway.

Major trains

• Purushottam Express
• Nandan Kanan Express
• Neelachal Express
• Kalinga Utkal Express
• Puri-Ahmedabad Express
• Dhauli Express
• Indore–Puri Humsafar Express
• Puri−Yesvantpur Garib Rath Express
• Puri–Howrah Garib Rath Express
• Howrah–Puri Shatabdi Express
• Sealdah–Puri Duronto Express
• Howrah - Puri Vande Bharat Express
• Tapaswini Express
• Puri–Sonpur Express

Gallery

References

External links

• Puri railway station at the India Rail Info

Puri travel guide from Wikivoyage