Hridaypur railway station

Hridaypur railway station is a minor railway station in the neighbourhood of Barasat. It serves the local areas of Hridaypur, Udayrajpur and Chandigarh in the North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India. Many people use it every day, especially to travel to Kolkata during the peak periods.HistoryThe main line of the Eastern Bengal Railway from Sealdah to Ranaghat, was opened in 1862 and extended the same year to Kushtia, now in Bangladesh. In 1882–84 the Bengal Central Railway Company constructed two lines: one from Dum Dum to Khulna, now in Bangladesh, via Bangaon and the other linking Ranaghat and Bangaon. The Hridaypur railway station lies in the Dum Dum-Bangaon section and was opened in 1906.ElectrificationThe Sealdah–Hasnabad–Bangaon–Ranaghat line was electrified in the year 1972.