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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Railway station in West Bengal}}<br />
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{{Infobox station<br />
| name = Tikiapara<br />
| type = [[File:Indian_Railways_Suburban_Railway_Logo.svg|30px]] [[Kolkata Suburban Railway]] station<br />
| style = Kolkata Suburban Railway<br />
| image = File:Tikiapara railway station.jpg<br />
| image_caption = Tikiapara railway station<br />
| address = Sailen Manna Street (Formerly By Pass Road), [[Tikiapara]], [[Howrah]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| coordinates = {{Coord|22.5986|88.3243|type:railwaystation_region:IN|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<br />
| elevation = {{convert|9|m|ft}}<br />
| line = [[Howrah–Kharagpur line]]<br />
| other = <br />
| structure = Standard (on-ground station)<br />
| platform = 3<br />
| tracks = 4<br />
| entrances = <br />
| parking = No<br />
| bicycle = No<br />
| opened = 1900<br />
| closed = <br />
| rebuilt = <br />
| electrified = 1967–69<br />
| accessible = <br />
| code = {{Indian railway code<br />
| code = TPKR<br />
| zone = [[South Eastern Railway zone|South Eastern Railway]]<br />
| division = Kharagpur<br />
}}<br />
| owned = [[Indian Railways]]<br />
| operator = [[South Eastern Railway zone|South Eastern Railway]]<br />
| status = {{color|green|Functioning}}<br />
| former = [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]]<br />
| passengers = <br />
| pass_year = <br />
| pass_percent = <br />
| pass_system = <br />
| map_type = India Kolkata#India West Bengal#India<br />
| map_dot_label = Tikiapara<br />
| map_size = 300<br />
| map_caption = Location in Kolkata##Location in West Bengal##Location in India<br />
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Kolkata Suburban Railway|line=South Eastern|left=Dasnagar|right=Howrah|to-left=Midnapore|to-right=Howrah Junction|type=[[Howrah–Kharagpur line]]}}<br />
| route_map = {{Howrah–Kharagpur line}}<br />
| map_state = collapsed<br />
| mapframe = yes<br />
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'''Tikiapara''' is a railway station on the [[Howrah–Kharagpur line]]. It is located in [[Tikiapara]], [[Howrah]] in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]].<br />
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==History==<br />
The Howrah–Kharagpur line was opened in 1900.<ref name=ser>{{cite web | url = http://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1 | title = Major events in formation of S.E.Railway | publisher = South Eastern Railway | access-date = 10 April 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130401151628/http://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1 | archive-date = 1 April 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The Howrah–Kharagpur line was electrified in 1967–69.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://irfca.org/docs/electrification-history.html |title = History of Electrification | publisher= IRFCA| access-date = 10 February 2013}}</ref><br />
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The BNR had no station at Haora, and does not to this day. It operated from a siding in Tikiapara, and was later permitted to use the new Haora Station of the EIR.<ref>''The Railway Comes to Calcutta'' by Sukanta Chaudhuri, published in ''Calcutta The Living City, Volume 1, page 238. First published by Oxford University Press in 1990. ISBN o 19 563696 1''</ref><br />
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==Car shed==<br />
There is a car shed of South Eastern Railway at Tikiapara.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed.html |title = Sheds and Workshops| publisher= IRFCA| access-date = 10 April 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Coaching depot==<br />
Tikiapara Coaching Depot maintains 22 primary base trains and 6 round trip trains. Total coach holding capacity is 744 coaches. It handles prestigious trains like Rajdhani Express and Poorva Express. The Coaching Depot is under Howrah Division, Eastern Railway.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.er.indianrailways.gov.in/cris//uploads/files/1336385288075-C&W%20HWH%20OVER%20VIEW%20MAY%2712.pdf |title = Carriage and Wagon / Howrah Division| publisher = Indian Railways| access-date = 11 April 2013}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://indiarailinfo.com/search/kolkata-howrah-hwh-to-tikiapara-tpkr/1/0/9266 Trains at Tikiapara]<br />
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{{Kolkata Suburban Railway, South Eastern}}<br />
{{Howrah topics}}<br />
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[[Category:Railway stations in India opened in 1900]]<br />
[[Category:Railway stations in Howrah district]]<br />
[[Category:Kharagpur railway division]]<br />
[[Category:Kolkata Suburban Railway stations]]</div>AdolphMassola0