Bankura Junction railway station
Bankura Junction railway station is a railway junction station of Kharagpur–Bankura–Adra line and Bankura–Damodar Railway (Bankura–Masagram line) route under the Adra railway division of South Eastern Railway. It is situated at Lalbazar, Bankura town in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Number of local and Express trains of this route stop at Bankura railway station. Trains. Some of the Major Trains available from this railway station are as follows: History. Kharagpur–Bankura–Adra line was opened in 1901. This railway track including Bankura Junction railway station was electrified in  1997–98. Old narrow-gauge Bankura–Damodar Railway (also called as Bankura Damodar River Railway) connecting Bankura and Rainagar in Bankura and Bardhaman districts was opened to traffic in sections between 1916 and 1917. In 2005, the 118 kilometer-long railway section known as Bankura–Masagram line was converted to broad gauge. The whole track was electrified in 2018–19.