Are there two Dadar stations? Are there stations shared by two or more zones or divisions?

July 19, 2019, 12:53 PM
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Some stations are physically in one building complex but are considered separate stations for operational and administrative reasons. Usually, these oddities reflect the historical development of the station, where more than one railway company in British India served that station.

The best example of this is Dadar, which actually consists of one station under WR (code ‘DDR’) and one under CR (code ‘DR’). Sometimes the separation is on the basis of the gauge of lines. At Ahmedabad, the BG lines are under Vadodara division (soon to be Ahmedabad division) whereas the MG lines are under Rajkot division. Some other examples are listed below:

(Old) Delhi is shared between Bikaner and Delhi divisions
Howrah is shared by ER and SER
Hazrat Nizamuddin is shared by NCR and NR
Akola is shared by SCR and CR. MG platforms at Akola are run by SCR while the BG ones are run by CR’s Bhusawal Division.
Mathura Jn. is shared by WR and NR (BG), and by NER (MG).
Mughalsarai is shared by NR and ER
Nagpur under CR is shared by SECR’s Nagpur division as well — SECR’s NG lines terminate next to the BG platforms of CR, and SECR administers that NG portion of the station. Staff at SECR NG platforms of Nagpur belong to CR but are paid their salary by SECR!
NR and NER share several stations. Lucknow, Varanasi, Allahabad, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Shahganj, and others have their BG portions under NR and their MG portions under NER. In the case of Lucknow both zones have divisional headquarters there.
Wadi is under CR’s Solapur division, but shared with SCR as well.
Malda Town is a divisional headquarters for ER, but used to be an NFR station and still has NFR’s main BG diesel shed.
Chindwara has SECR NG lines terminating at the station and also BG lines belonging to CR terminating there.

Source – IFRCA.org

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