James Street railway station, Hyderabad

17°25′58.4″N 78°29′12.3″E / 17.432889°N 78.486750°E / 17.432889; 78.486750Elevation522 metres (1,713 ft)Owned byIndian RailwaysPlatforms2 ^[1]Other informationStation codeJET Zone(s) South Central Railway Division(s) HyderabadHistoryOpened1874; 150 years ago (1874)

Location
James Street railway station Location in Telangana

James Street railway station is a railway station in Secunderabad. The station was built in 1874 and was the second station after Secunderabad station on the Hyderabad–Wadi sector by Nizam State Railways.^[2] The station derives its name from erstwhile James Street located adjacent to this station. This street after independence was later renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Road. The railways station was amongst the first railway stations to have been built as a self-financed first railway line from Secunderabad to Wadi by the sixth Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan Bahadur. This railway line later became the part of the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. In 1951, James Town railway station and the line was made a part of Central Railway zone. ^[3]

Lines

• Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System
  • Falaknuma–Hyderabad (FH line)

References

External links

• MMTS Timings as per South Central Railway
• MMTS Train Timings