ADRA Railway Station Information and Trains for ADRA

"Adra railway station" serves "Adra, Purulia town", and also serves the industrial city of Raghunathpur, Purulia and Kashipur, West Bengal in Purulia district in the Indian States and territories of India of West Bengal. Adra Junction is the main terminal station of Raghunathpur industrial area of the Purulia district. Adra Junction is a gateway to the famous tourist spots of Purulia district.

It is an important junction station, with railway tracks from different directions meeting at Adra. It is also the station serving one of the divisional headquarters of SER that is Adra. It is one of the busiest station in the entire division and handle a huge passenger and freight train traffic in a day.

The Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line, a joint effort of Great Indian Peninsula Railway and East Indian Railway Company came up in 1870. The Bengal Nagpur Railway was formed in 1887 for the purpose of upgrading the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway and then extending it via Bilaspur railway station to Asansol railway station, in order to develop a shorter Howrah-Mumbai route than the one via Allahabad. The Bengal Nagpur Railway main line from Nagpur to Asansol railway station, on the Howrah-Delhi main line, was opened for goods traffic on 1 February 1891. However, it was only after Kharagpur Junction was linked from the west and the south that it was connected to Howrah in 1900.

BNR lines were extended to Gomoh, on EIR's main line, in 1907. The Mohuda-Chandrapura branch line was opened in 1913.The first MEMU train services in SER were started in between Adra and Asansol. Later these services started between Adra - Purulia, Adra - Tatanagar and Adra - Medinipur.

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