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Blog Entry# 3821379
Posted: Sep 19 2018 (15:19)

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Sep 19 2018 (15:19)   34432/Sealdah - Sonarpur Local | BLN/Ballygunge Junction (4 PFs)
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Presenting some randomly captured pictures of Ballygunge Junction. This pictures were captured from platform numbered 4 at BLN...
BLN is a traditional enriched posh suburb of South Kolkata. Deeply entrenched in the city's mythos, many of the prominent personalities from Calcutta have deep connections with Ballygunge....
From the railway standpoint Ballygunge is the largest(discounting SDAH ofcourse) , most busiest, and the fulcrum based on which the Sealdah South and the Circular railways operate....
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is also the biggest entraining and deboarding point on the South section right after Sealdah....
Infact in reference to the Calcutta Suburban, it's importance lies just after Dum Dum & Howrah....
Ballygunge is traditionally a four point junction with lines shooting off towards Sealdah South , Diamond Harbour , Budge Budge & DDJ (via MJT), BNXR & DDJ (Sealdah bypass)....
Unlike fellow suburban stations like Sonarpur and Baruipur which also act like terminus stations for a lot of trains , Ballygunge has a miniscule number of originating trains from it, if any....
Despite being a suburban station Ballygunge is equipped with several facilities like escalators that are missing in bigger stations in ER....
Camera used :- Moto G5
Time :- 5-6 PM
Pictures 1-3 :- Show the lively suburban junction bustling with a flurry of human presence waiting for their respective train
Picture 4 :- Office time Sealdah-Sonarpur Local entering platform numbered 2 at Ballygunge.

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Full Platform shed is not there one of the most imp amenity specially in this rainy season....
Full platform shelter is not available in most of the stations of SDAH Division even not in Bidhanagar station also....i have several times tweeted to Drm SDAH about it but Drm has no headache on it.. But yes width of platform in Ballygaunge is quiet good otherwise like most other stn of SDAH where there is no space to walk in platform too much congested and also full of hawkers in platform. Even in bidhannagar stn is the same when 2 trains are together announced in one platform then no place to walk on platform gets congested fully.
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is not paying good attension to the platforms of SDAH div not much pgr amenities in most stn except in few stns...whereas in HWH Div of ER it is quiet good....compared to SDAH Div. But also i say that ER do not have much options because of local leaders and goons , ER cannot vacate the stations of SDAH free from hawkers....so also the reason i think is ER cannot do much to pgr amenities at most of stns of SDAH Div

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