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India's first railway station: Where country’s first train journey started

  • Bori Bunder railway station, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra was the first railway station in India. It was built by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. The station was inaugurated on April 16, 1853, marking the beginning of India's railway journey.
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    Bori Bunder railway station, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra was the first railway station in India. It was built by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. The station was inaugurated on April 16, 1853, marking the beginning of India's railway journey.

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    The station was a small one, with only a single pair of tracks, and had no platforms. The station had wooden buildings.

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    On April 16, 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway launched India's first passenger train from Bori Bunder to Thane. The train, consisting of 14 carriages and 400 passengers, was pulled by three locomotives named Sindh, Sultan, and Sahib. The historic journey covered a distance of 34 kilometers and took an hour and fifteen minutes to reach Thane.

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    In 1888. the station was rebuilt as Bombay became a major port city at the time and was named Victoria Terminus to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the then reigning Empress of India, Queen Victoria.

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    The station was subsequently renamed as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in 1996 after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire.

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    In December 2016, the Fadnavis government passed a resolution to rename the station to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT). The Home Ministry officially confirmed the change in May 2017, and the station was again renamed as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.

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    CSMT has 18 platforms in total, with seven dedicated to suburban EMU trains and eleven (Platforms 8 to 18) serving long-distance trains. Platform No. 18 is used for trains like Rajdhani, Duronto, Garib Rath, and Tejas Express.

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    The station building is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style of architecture. The building exhibits a fusion of influences from Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and classical Indian architecture.

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