Train Accident on 8th May 2013 Railway Bilaspur Zone C.G.

Bilaspur Railway Station, located in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, serves Bilaspur in Bilaspur district.

Bilaspur Railway Station has 3rd longest railway platform in India after Gorakhpur and Kharagpur.[original research?]

Gorakhpur Railway Station, Uttar Pradesh, India:1,366.33 m (4,483 ft)
Kharagpur Railway Station, West Bengal, India: 1,072.5 m (3,519 ft)
Bilaspur Railway Station, Chhattisgarh, India: 802 m (2,631 ft)

History[edit]
Bilaspur Railway Station came up in 1888 with the opening of Rajnandgaon to Bilaspur extension of erstwhile Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway taken over by Bengal Nagpur Railway and construction of the Nagpur-Asansol main line of Bengal Nagpur Railway, which opened in 1891. The station building was constructed in 1890. It became a station on the crosscountry Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line in 1900.[1]

Electrification[edit]
The Rourkela-Bilaspur section was electrified in 1969-70 while Bilaspur-Nagpur in 1976-77 and Bilaspur-Katni in 1981.[2]

Zonal HQ[edit]
Bilaspur is headquarters of South East Central Railway [3]

Facilities[edit]
Bilaspur railway station is a complete, well handled and high quality facility providing A-1 grade station. It has got cloak room, AC and non AC dormitory, 1 AC and 1 non AC waiting room, a multifunctional complex and many other amenities. Even a medical shop is also provided at platform no 1. Escalators and lifts also started operations here in Jan 2014. There is facility of Battery Operated Golf Cars which serves to senior citizen, physically handicapped people.

Busy station[edit]
Bilaspur Railway Station is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.[4] It is the busiest station of Chhattisgarh and fourth busiest of central India where about 300 trains and goods trains (including both up and down directions) passes everyday.