Chandausi railway station


Chandausi railway station is located in Sambhal district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and serves Chandausi. Chandausi Junction Railway Station falls on the Aligarh-Bareilly rail route. It is served by the Northern Railways. The main train connections include Dadar-Bareilly Express, Dehradun-Allahabad Link Express, Muzzaffarpur-Delhi Sadhbhavana Express and Sultanpur-Delhi Sadbhawna express

History

After connecting Varanasi with Lucknow, the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway started working west of Lucknow and it reached Bareilly in 1873. A line connecting Moradabad to Chandausi was also built in 1872 and it was continued up to Bareilly in 1873. The Bareilly-Moradabad chord was completed in 1894. The former main line became Chandausi Loop and the one via Rampur became main line. It was extended to Shahranpur in 1886.
A branch line to Aligarh was opened in 1894.

Electrification

The survey for railway electrification of the Moradabad-Aligarh line, including the Chandausi-Bareilly sector, was sanctioned in the budget for 2012–13.