Friday, May 19, 2006
INDIAN RAILWAYS - 3
A FEW FROLICKING FACTS ABOUT I.R. co.
SHORTEST STATION NAME :-
Ib, near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway).
Some station names with three letters are Ait (between Jhansi and Kanpur),
Ara (between Mughalsarai and Patna), Bir (between Khandwa and Itarsi), Mau (between Varanasi and
Gorakhpur), Ata, Kem, Pen, etc. -- there are many others.
Note: "Bad" is a misspelling of "Baad" in the CR timetables.
LONGEST STATION NAME :-
"VENKATANARASIMHARAJUVARIAPETA" (Halt). This is sometimes spelled with 'Sri' prefixed, making it even longer by 3 letters. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway , the first station after Renigunta towards Arakkonam (just within the AP border). Station code VKZ. It is in the Chennai division of SR and not in the Guntakal division of SCR.
SHORTEST STATION NAME :-
Ib, near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway).
Some station names with three letters are Ait (between Jhansi and Kanpur),
Ara (between Mughalsarai and Patna), Bir (between Khandwa and Itarsi), Mau (between Varanasi and
Gorakhpur), Ata, Kem, Pen, etc. -- there are many others.
Note: "Bad" is a misspelling of "Baad" in the CR timetables.
LONGEST STATION NAME :-
"VENKATANARASIMHARAJUVARIAPETA" (Halt). This is sometimes spelled with 'Sri' prefixed, making it even longer by 3 letters. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway , the first station after Renigunta towards Arakkonam (just within the AP border). Station code VKZ. It is in the Chennai division of SR and not in the Guntakal division of SCR.
