Tundla Junction railway station

Tundla Junction is an important station in Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Delhi–Howrah main line 25 km from Agra City. Tundla is a technical halt for changing drivers and guards for almost all of the trains on the New Delhi–Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar / Lucknow sections. The station was built by the British and remains essentially unchanged. The railway station is a site in itself and takes one back to the pre-independence era.

Tundla Junction Railway Station
Indian Railway Station
General information
Location	Junction Point, Tundla, Uttar Pradesh India
Coordinates	27°12′28″N 78°14′01″E
Elevation	166.878 metres (547.50 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	North Central Railway
Line(s)	Kanpur–Delhi section of Howrah–Delhi main line Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line and Tundla-Agra line
Platforms	7
Construction
Structure type	Standard on ground
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	yes
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	TDL
Division(s)	Prayagraj
History
Opened	1866
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	East Indian Railway Company
Location Tundla Location in Uttar Pradesh Tundla Location in India

Railways in Agra
5 Bilochpura 4 Raja ki Mandi Belaganj Yard 5 Agra City 8 Yamuna Bridge 4 Agra Fort 2 Idgah to Bharatpur and Bayana 0 Agra Cantonment Agra Airport to Agra–Bhopal section 12 Chhalesar Agra–Lucknow Expressway 16 Kuberpur 23 Etmadpur to Kanpur–Delhi section 27 Tundla to Kanpur–Delhi section

Tundla Junction is important for the people of Agra and for tourists providing connections to the east of the country, i.e. Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna etc., and especially to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. It has connections to Agra Cantonment, Badaun, Bareilly Junction, Etawah, Aligarh Junction, Phaphund, Kanpur Central railway station etc.

History

• 1972: Electrification from Howrah reaches Tundla.
• 29 December 2002: Konkan Railway conducts a trial run of the Madgaon–Roha Express at 150 km/h (briefly touching 165 km/h at times) using a WDP-4 loco. In December, NR is said to have run trials with a WDP-4 hauling at train at up to 180 km/h on the Ghaziabad–Tundla section.
• 13–21 December 2003: Trials with weak field arrangement for MEMUs on the Tundla–Kanpur section of NCR. With a "dense crush load" and stopping at all stations, a 4-car MEMU rake could reducee its total running time by 7% with a maximum speed of 90 km/h and 10% with a maximum speed of 100 km/h on the 228 km section, because of the improved acceleration.

External links

• Tundla Junction railway station at the India Rail Info