HISTORY OF KANPUR CENTRAL [ ONE OF THE BIGGEST STATIONS IN INDIA]

Kanpur is the 12th most populous city in India and the second largest city in the state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow. The city is the administrative headquarters of Kanpur Nagar district and Kanpur division. STATION CODE :CNB The name of the city is believed to have deived from Karnapur (meaning "town of Karna", one of the heroes of the Mahabharata). Another theory is that it came from the nearby town of Makanpur, earlier known as Khairabad, where the Sufi saint of the Madariya Sufi order, Badiuddin Zinda Shah Madar, settled. India Elevation 126.630 metres (415.45 ft) Operated by Indian Railways Line(s) Allahabad -Kanpur section Kanpur-Delhi section Howrah-Delhi main line Howrah-Gaya-Delhi line Kanpur→Unnao→Lucknow Kanpur→Rai-Barelli→Pratapgarh Kanpur→Sitapur→Shahjehanpur→Bareilly Kanpur→Bhimsen→Jhansi Kanpur→Bhimsen→Banda Kanpur→Farrukhabad→Kasganj→Mathura Status Functioning Station code CNB Zone(s) North Central Railway Division(s) Allahabad History Opened 1930 Electrified 1972 from Howrah 5 August 1976 till New Delhi Previous names Indian Branch Rly. Co. Northern Railways Traffic Passengers 8,00,000 per day Kanpur Central is one of five "Central" railway stations in India. It is the busiest railway station in India in terms of frequency of trains. Around 672 trains passes through the station daily. It is a major intercity rail and commuter rail station in the city of Kanpur, and is situated on the Howrah - Delhi broad gauge route passing through Uttar Pradesh and it is fact that 259 routes including howrah delhi line cant be operated without it. It is the busiest station of the North Central Railways, recording traffic of more than 750,000 passengers per day and more than 1760 stations are directly connected to it which is highest in the country. After determining the railway stations that need to be world-class, former Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee included Kanpur Central in her list. She included funding for this work in her "50 World-Class Railway Stations" budget. A phased revamping has begun. Though the re-modelling of Kanpur Central Station began a long time ago, it is being done gradually in phases. At present, the re-modelling work is proceeding very slowly, but senior NCR officials are hopeful of keeping their promise of providing a new, improved look to Kanpur Central in the near future. The present station was built in 1928, though the imposing building was completed in 1930. The building's construction is inspired by Lucknow's magnificent Lucknow Charbagh railway station building which was built by the British in 1914; however, it could not be constructed identically to Charbagh because it would have been enormously expensive Routes from Kanpur Kanpur→Govindpuri→Tundla→Agra Kanpur-Panki→Etawah→Tundla→Aligarh→Ghaziabad→New Delhi Kanpur→Chakeri→Allahabad→Howrah Kanpur→Gangaghat→Unnao→Lucknow Kanpur→Unnao→Dalmau→Raebareli→Unchahar→Allahabad Kanpur→Gangaghat→Unnao→Balamau→Sitapur→Shahjehanpur Kanpur→Govindpuri→Ghatampur→Jhansi Kanpur→Govindpuri→Ghatampur→Banda Kanpur→Kanpur Anwarganj→Farrukhabad→Kasganj Kanpur-Panki→Mandhana ( proposed )