Howrah Junction Railway Station

Howrah Junction Railway Station is in Bally Jagachha, Howrah, West Bengal. Howrah Junction Railway Station is situated nearby to the food court Food Track, as well as near the art gallery Swastik graphix.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Howrah Station and Howrah Bridge.

Howrah Station

Photo: Tirthankar Maiti, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Howrah Station, also known as Howrah Junction, is a major railway station of Kolkata, which not only connects the city to the rest of India, but also acts as a major stopover to connect different destinations of West Bengal and beyond.

Howrah Bridge

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The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking both sides of Kolkata. Howrah Bridge is situated 520 metres northeast of Howrah Junction Railway Station.

Howrah metro station

Metro station

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Howrah metro station is a metro station on Kolkata Metro's Green Line in Howrah, India. Built underneath the Howrah railway station's new and old complex, the metro station allows interchanging with other zones of Indian Railways as part of the Howrah station transport hub. Howrah metro station is situated 220 metres west of Howrah Junction Railway Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include BBD Bagh and Jorasanko.

BBD Bagh

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BBD Bagh, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of Kolkata. Formerly known as Dalhousie Square or simply Dalhousie, the precinct takes a visitor back to the British Raj era with nostalgic overtones.

Jorasanko

Suburb

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Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.