Tapang railway station
railway station in Odisha
Tapang railway station is a railway station on Khurda Road–Visakhapatnam section, part of the Howrah–Chennai main line under Khurda Road railway division of East Coast Railway zone. It is situated at Narangarh, Tapang in Khordha district in the Indian state of Odisha.
History
In between 1893 and 1896, the coastal railway track from Cuttack to Vijayawada was built and opened to traffic by East Coast State Railway. The route was electrified in several phases. Khurda–Visakhapatnam section was completely electrified by 2002 and Howrah–Chennai route was fully electrified in 2005.
“Tapang railway station” enters the record as railway station in Odisha. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tapang, railway and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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