Barkakana Junction railway station

Barkakana Junction railway station (station code: BRKA), serves Barkakana and the surrounding coal mining areas in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It comes under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway zone.

History

In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh–Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later, these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway. In the same year (1927), Bengal Nagpur Railway opened the Muri–Barkakana section to traffic. The 57 km-long Hazaribagh–Barkakana section was opened for passenger trains on 7 December 2016 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das

Electrification

Barkakana–Garhwa, Barkakana–Danea and Barkakana–Ramgarh sections were electrified in 1996–97.

Rating

• Overall 3.8/5

• cleanliness - good (8)/10

• porters/escalators - average (7)/10

• food - average (7)/10

• transportation - good (8)/10

• lodging - average (5)/10

• safety - good (6)/10

Trains

No. of Originating trains- 9

• Patna–Ranchi Vande Bharat Express
• Tatanagar–Patna Vande Bharat Express (one day in a week)
• Ranchi–New Delhi Garib Rath Express
• Dhanbad-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express Special
• Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express (via Barkakana)
• Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Gaya Weekly Superfast Express
• Visakhapatnam–Banaras Express
• Ranchi–Varanasi Express
• Ranchi–Chopan Express
• Shaktipunj Express
• Tatanagar–Jammu Tawi Express
• Sambalpur–Jammu Tawi Express
• Palamu Express
• Howrah–Bhopal Weekly Express
• Santragachi–Ajmer Weekly Express
• Kolkata–Madar Express (Weekly Express)
• Ahmedabad–Kolkata Express (Weekly express)
• Asansol - Hatia Express

And many more express, passenger and intercity train run through this station.

Nearest airports

• Birsa Munda Airport (53 Km)
• Bokaro Airport (85 Km)
• Dhanbad Airport (130 Km)
• Sonari Airport (167 Km)

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