Pune Junction railway station
railway station in Pune, India
Pune Junction railway station (station code: PUNE) is the main railway junction of the city of Pune, India. It is one of the major railway junctions in Maharashtra. Pune Junction consists of 6 platforms. It also has a suburban train network.
It has two accesses, from HH Aga Khan Road on the south and Raja Bahadur Mills Road on the north. Pune Police and Central Reserve Police Force serve the station.
History
The first passenger train in India ran on 16 April 1853, on the track laid by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai to Thane. The GIPR line was extended to Kalyan Junction in 1854, then on the south-east side to Khopoli via Palasdhari at the foot of the Western Ghats in 1856. While construction work was in progress across the Bhor Ghat, the GIPR opened the Khandala–Pune Junction track to the public in 1858. The Pune railway station opened in 1858.
“Pune Junction railway station” enters the record as railway station in Pune, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pune, Junction and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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