Asansol Junction 3.17

Asansol Junction railway station is a model railway station in Asansol Sadar subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the eight busiest railway station in India in terms of frequency of trains after Kanpur Central, Vijayawada Junction, Delhi Junction, New Delhi, Ambala Cant, Howrah and Patna Junction. Around 171 trains starts, ends, or passes through the station daily. It serves Asansol and the surrounding areas.OverviewMining-industry zone"The entire belt between Durgapur, and all the way up to Dhanbad and beyond is industrialized. Apart from factories, there are many coalmines, some closed now, and some with fires burning deep in the mineshafts. The mining area extends for a large area, mostly to the south of the tracks. Quite a portion of the track passes through cuttings, where the surrounding area is higher than the track level, resulting in the profusion of characteristic small masonry bridges crossing the tracks." This description is from "Gomoh loco shed and CLW trip record" by Samit Roychoudhury.