Indian Railways (IR) has undertaken a feasibility study to develop Talgaria station as a satellite terminal. Talgaria Station is situated on Bokaro- Adra section of South Eastern Railway about 30 km from Bokaro.
The capacity expansion will benefit the industrial belt of Bokaro and Dhanbad. This was stated by Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw replying to questions in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Talgaria station
There are six lines (2 main lines and 4 loop lines) and 04 high level platforms at Talgaria Station. Average daily footfall at Talgaria Station is about 200 passengers.
This station is presently being served by four train services.Further, Talgaria is also connected to Adra by 18013/14 Adra-Bokaro Steel City Express which is further connected to Delhi and Puri/Bhubaneswar by five pairs of train services.
At Talgaria station, all passenger facilities like platform shelter, urinal, lavatory, waiting hall, drinking water arrangement, seating arrangement, and foot-over-bridge are available. The works of high-level platform, platform shelter, booking office cum waiting hall, toilet, water booth, Divyangjan ramp at platform number 1 and 3-m foot-over-bridge have been completed in recent years.
Doubling of 38-km Talgaria – Bokaro North Cabin section has been recently completed to augment capacity of Talgaria Station. Work for doubling of 12.5-km Bhojudih – Talgaria section has been taken up to augment the capacity further.
The feasibility of developing Talgaria Station as a satellite terminal has been taken up. The proposal for development of station as a satellite station will be examined with respect to assessment of passenger footfall, traffic trends, and earnings of station, keeping in view future growth, and requirements of further development.
Besides, provision of stoppages of train services depends on the traffic justification, operational feasibility including availability of extra time on the section and availability of matching infrastructure such as platform length.
Bokaro Steel City capacity augmentation
Bokaro-Bhubaneswar route is served by five pairs of trains, Bokaro-Puri by three pairs and Bokaro -Delhi by eight pairs of trains in addition to being a heavy goods traffic section. There are nine lines and three high level platforms presently at Bokaro Steel City Station.
The following works are being taken up to augment capacity of rail network at Bokaro station. They are as follows:
· Bokaro Steel City – Bokaro North Cabin (3.75 Km) 3rd and 4th line work.
·Bokaro Steel City – Damrughutu 3rd& 4th line and
· Damrughutu – Barbenda (30Km) doubling
Finally, Bokaro station is also being developed under the Amrit Bharat station scheme. The following works have been taken up:
• One additional island platform
• One additional line
• Extension of one platform
• Improvement of station building
• Surfacing of platform numbers 1, 2 and 3
• Escalators
• new waiting hall
• retiring room
• Parking, approach road, entry/exit gate, boundary wall
• Tactile pathway for Divyangjan at platform number 1 and improvement of Divyangjan toilet at platform number 2
