Bori Bunder railway station

Bori Bunder
बोरी बंदर
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, presently defunct, situated at Bori Bunder, Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was from here that first train journey of the subcontinent started to Thane in 1853.

History

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 Boree Bunder to Tannah (now Thane) with 14 bogies and 400 passengers.[1] The train which had three named passenger cars, viz., Sindh, Sultan and Sahib took off with three locos embarked on an hour-and-fifteen-minute journey to Tannah (now Thane).[2] The journey covered a distance of 24 miles (39 km), formally heralding the birth of the Indian Railways.[3]

Reconstruction

The station was eventually rebuilt as the Victoria Terminus, named after the then reigning Queen Victoria, and has been subsequently renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CSTM) after Maharashtra's and India's famed 17th-century king.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Rail museum in Lonavala mooted". Daily News and Analysis. 27 September 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. "First train run in India". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. "The first train in India (GIPR), 1853". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  4. 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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