: Nearly a century after its opening, major makeover awaits New Delhi Rly Station #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics By Preet KiranNew Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Nearly a century ago in 1926, a single-storey railway

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By Preet KiranNew Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Nearly a century ago in 1926, a single-storey railway station was built by the East Indian Railway Company which came to be known as New Delhi Railway Station. The station awaits a major makeover, as its reconstruction will be done in three phases in this year itself.
Back when it was constructed, the stations only platform lay between Ajmeri gate and Paharganj. Today, it is considered one of the busiest stations in the country in terms of train frequency and passenger movement, with a total of 16 platforms and 18 tracks, where platform 1 is located at Paharganj and platform 16 opens towards Ajmeri gate.
The station is only two kilometres away from Delhis central business district Connaught Place and is connected to several major cities through more than 300 railway lines. A total of 400 trains departing from here reach 867 stations in the country.
On an average, 3. 6 million passengers travel from here everyday.
New Delhi Railway Station is the terminal station for most of the rail routes going towards East and South. The station is connected to New Delhi-Mumbai Main Line, New Delhi-Chennai Main Line, Howrah-Gaya-Delhi Line and Delhi-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor.
The station serves as the main hub for the Rajdhani Express and is both the starting and ending point of the Shatabdi Express.
In 1969, the first Rajdhani Express left for Howrah from the station and the countrys first Vande Bharat Express was flagged off from here in 2019.
Luxury tourist trains also depart from New Delhi Railway Station such as Palace on Wheels, Royal Rajasthan on Wheels and Maharaja Express.
New Delhi Railway Station has the worlds largest interlocking network and has held the record for the largest route relay interlocking system in the world since 1999.
It earlier ranked A1 as per the classification of Indian Railway stations of commercial importance and is now a Non-Suburban grade-1 (NSG-1) station.
After a long gap, the New Delhi Railway Station was developed for the first time in 2007, just before the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India.
During that time, it was connected to New Delhi by building the Ring Railway. In 1926, 20-25 trains used to leave from this station and 4000-5000 people travelled from here.
Until the 1950s, Old Delhi Railway Station was the main station in the capital, but after 1956 New Delhi Railway Station became the main station of Delhi.
The station building at Paharganj was the first station building in India to have common facilities for all classes of passengers including a common entry and exit.
Persistent efforts have been made over the decades to reduce the stations load, including rail traffic, with the station reaching its saturation limit in the early 1970s.

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