Berhampore Court | |
Style: | Kolkata Suburban Railway |
Type: | Express train, Passenger train and Suburban train station |
Country: | India |
Owned: | Indian Railways |
Operator: | Eastern Railway zone |
Line: | Sealdah-Lalgola line |
Platform: | 2 (3 under construction) |
Tracks: | 5 |
Structure: | Standard (on-ground station) |
Classification: | NSG-4 |
Code: | BPC |
Zone: | Eastern Railway zone |
Former: | East Indian Railway Company |
Electrified: | Yes (December,2007)[1] |
Passengers: | 27K/day |
Map Dot Label: | Berhampore Court |
Map Size: | 300 |
Map State: | collapsed |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map |
Berhampore Court railway station is a railway station on the Sealdah-Lalgola line and is located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.[2] [3] It serves Baharampur city and its surrounding census areas.
The Calcutta –Kusthia line of Eastern Bengal Railway was opened to traffic in 1862.[4] The Ranaghat–Lalgola branch line was established in 1905 as an extension of Sealdah–Ranaghat line. This railway station was named Berhampore Court in accordance with the British pronunciation of Baharampore as "Berhampore".[5] [6] The rail distance between Berhampore and Sealdah is approximately .
Krishnanagar to Lalgola electrification and line doubling were completed in March 2017.