Chittaranjan railway station

Chittaranjan Railway Station, station code CRJ, is the railway station serving the suburb of Chittaranjan in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Chittaranjan Station is connected to metropolitan areas of India, by the Delhi-Kolkata Main Line via Mugalsarai-Patna route. Madhupur is located at. It has an average elevation of 154m.The railway township is named after the Indian freedom fighter, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das. Chittaranjan is one of the cleanest city in India and the one of the first planned city post independence. Chittaranjan Rly Station serves Mihijam and Chittaranjan. The passenger rail head serving Chittaranjan is located in Mihijam, which is in Jharkhand. The Chittaranjan railway station is in Howrah-Patna-Mughalsarai main line at a distance of 237 km from Howrah. Nearest important railway junction is Asansol, 25 km away. Most of the Patna, Barauni bound express trains coming from Howrah, Sealdah, Ranchi, Kharagpur, Tatanagar, Dhanbad stop here.HistoryAt first the name of the station was Mihijam. But when the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works established at chittaranjan, the station's name was changed to Chittaranjan station. Geographically this station is located at Mihijam, under Jamtara district of Jharkhand, but the township of Chittaranjan is in West Bengal.