Junagarh Road railway station

Junagarh Road
Indian Railways terminal station
General information
Location	Khuruguda road, Junagarh, Odisha India
Coordinates	19°31′23″N 82°34′37″E
Elevation	217 m (712 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	East Coast Railway
Line(s)	Lanjigarh–Junagarh section
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	JNRD
Zone(s)	East Coast Railway
Division(s)	Sambalpur
History
Opened	3 March 2014
Services
Preceding station Indian Railways Following station Bhawanipatna towards ? East Coast Railway zone Lanjigarh–Junagarh section Terminus
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Junagarh Road railway station is a terminus station belonging to Indian Railways in Kalahandi district of Odisha State in India.

History

The proposal for a Lanjigarh–Junagarh line came in 1991, when Bhakta Charan Das was the state railway minister. The line was announced in the rail budget of 1992. After nearly twenty years, the line was completed in 2011, and Bhawanipatna railway station was opened by Das on 11 August 2012.^[1] On the same day, the first Bhawanipatna–Bhubaneshwar link express started from Bhawanipatna.^[2]

Opened

The Lanjigarh–Junagarh section was completed by 2 March 2014 and the Bhubaneswar–Bhawanipatna Express was extended to Junagarh.^[3] Junagarh railway station was inaugurated by Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the presence of Bhakta Charan Das on 3 March 2014.^[4]

Future plans

There are plans by the Government of Odisha and Indian Railways to extend the existing Lanjigarh–Junagarh line to Jeypore on Kothavalasa–Kirandul line, and further to Malkangiri and Bhadrachalam in Telangana. Survey work is being planned for this purpose.^[5]

References

1. "Bhawanipatna railway station opens". Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
2. "Bhawanipatna-bhubaneshwar link exp inaugural". Retrieved 9 December 2013.
3. "Bhawanipatna-bhubaneshwar link exp extension". Retrieved 1 March 2014.
4. "Junagarh-Lanjigarh Rly Link Takes 22 Years to Complete". 3 March 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
5. "New lines under survey – East Coast Railway" (PDF). Retrieved 28 April 2020.