James Street railway station, Hyderabad
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 James Street railway station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Secunderabad India | ||||
| Coordinates | 17°25′58.4″N 78°29′12.3″E / 17.432889°N 78.486750°E | ||||
| Elevation | 522 metres (1,713 ft) | ||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||
| Platforms | 2 [1] | ||||
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| Station code | JET | ||||
| Zone(s) | South Central Railway | ||||
| Division(s) | Hyderabad | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1874 | ||||
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James Street railway station is a railway station in Secunderabad, Telangana. The station was built in 1874 and was the second station after Secunderabad station on the Hyderabad–Wadi sector by Nizam State Railways.[2] The station derives its name from erstwhile James Street located adjacent to this station. After India's independence, this street was later renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Road. The railways station was amongst the first railway stations to have been built as a self-financed first railway line from Secunderabad to Wadi by the sixth Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan Bahadur. This railway line later became part of the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. In 1951, James Town railway station and the line were made a part of Central Railway zone.[3]
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[edit]- ^ "James Street Railway Station Map/Atlas SCR/South Central Zone - Railway Enquiry".
- ^ "James Street railway station to be revived". The Hindu. Hyderabad. 25 July 2002. Retrieved 4 December 2018.[dead link]
- ^ "Will James Street station get facelift?". Telangana Today. Hyderabad. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
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