Bori Bunder railway station

Bori Bunder Railway Station
Location Mumbai, Maharashtra
India
Coordinates 18°56′23″N 72°50′08″E / 18.9398°N 72.8355°E / 18.9398; 72.8355Coordinates: 18°56′23″N 72°50′08″E / 18.9398°N 72.8355°E / 18.9398; 72.8355
Owned by Great Indian Peninsular Railway
Other information
Station code BB
History
Opened 1853 (1853)
Closed 1878 (1878)

Bori Bunder railway station was a railway station, situated at Bori Bunder, Mumbai, Maharashtra, in India. It was from here that first passenger train of the subcontinent ran to Thane in 1853. This station was rebuilt as Victoria Terminus later in 1888.

Construction

Built by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, this railway station takes its name from the nearby locality, Bori Bunder. On 16 April 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway operated the first passenger train in India from Bori Bunder to Thane with 14 carriages and 400 passengers. The train which had three named locomotives, viz., Sindh, Sultan and Sahib, took off and embarked on an hour-and-fifteen-minute journey to Thane.[1] The journey covered a distance of 24 miles (39 km), formally heralding the birth of the Indian Railways.[2]

Reconstruction

The station was eventually rebuilt as the Victoria Terminus, in 1888, named after the then reigning Queen Victoria, and has been subsequently renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CSTM) after Maharashtra's famed 17th-century king, Chhatrapati Shivaji.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "First train run in India". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "The first train in India (GIPR), 1853". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Aruna, Tikekara (2006). The Cloister's Pale: A Biography of the University of Mumbai. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan. p. 64. ISBN 81-7991-293-0. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
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