Old Delhi Railway Station, Anand Vihar Railway Station Delhi

Old Delhi was founded by Shahjahan and earlier it was known as Shahjahanabad. Old Delhi has its unique charm its serves as the heartbeat of metropolitan Delhi. Old Delhi railway station is the first railway station of Delhi located near Chandi Chowk. It stands tall in its beautiful red colour. It is about seven km from Connaught place, the heart of New Delhi.

Old Delhi railway station code is DLI. Old Delhi railway station helps the New Delhi railway station in taking the extra burden and managing the system effectively.

Facilities at Old Delhi Railway Station:

Computerized reservation facility.
Tourist Information Bureau
Nearby budget, economy and deluxe hotels for tourists
Cloak room is available for the passengers where they can safely keep there luggage.
Car parking is also available for the visitors.
The station is near to the Chandni Chowk Metro Station, thereby making it further easy for metro users to catch trains to different destinations far or nearby.
Proximity to Old Delhi enables tourists to get a feel of Old Delhi

Anand Vihar Railway Station

With increasing passengers pressure from all over the world at existing station of Delhi railways namely old Delhi railways station, new Delhi railway station its has become necessary to have additional railway terminal.

The station was inaugurated on 19 December 2009 by the then Union Railway Minster, Mamta Banerjee and the Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikhshit.

It is one the largest railway stations, the terminal spread over 42 hectares and caters to all east bound trains from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and other north eastern states.

These trains have to cross the bridge over the river Yamuna as all the other stations are placed on other side of Yamuna River. To solve the problem of travellers, Anand Vihar was selected in the Trans Yamuna region to construct a mega railway terminal.

Anand Vihar railway terminal, station code AVNT, and station code is ANVR.The construction of Anand Vihar railway terminal sorted out many problems such as congestion and overcrowding.

The railway terminal will help the passengers as it is close to Anand Vihar interstate bus terminal and Anand Vihar metro station.

Gradually many trains will be shifted from New Delhi and other stations to Anand Vihar, to manage the load of passengers. The station will also have additional number of platforms and it will be able to handle over three lakh passengers after the constriction of Phase II.

More than 270 trains will run daily. Phase II of the Anand Vihar will involve linking of the new with the original Anand Vihar station.

Facilities at Anand Vihar Station:

Booking office
Booking counters
Waiting halls with special facilities for handicapped passengers so that they can be comfortable.
Arrival and departure areas is made separately for ease of passengers.
Cloak rooms
Reservation halls
Toilets
Parcel
Luggage office
operational service accommodation and parking areas.
Station has some modern amenities like:
ATMS
Touch screen inquiry system
Foreign exchange counters
Commercial and maintenance offices
Food plazas
Computerized ticketing facility
Retiring room and dormitories
Separate parcel loading facility is available in this terminal.
Two escalators and six lifts and a special heritage gallery and custom-made subways which can be used by physically challenged passengers.

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