Eat-Sleep-Railfanning 🔄 Repeat - Shankar Mehani

#railstations list of services-
1 water taps - available on platforms from where mail/express trains depart...viz.pf 5, 6, 7, 8, 9A, 9B
2 shed - present for all platform. covers almost 100% of platform length except platform 9C which has no shed.
3 lodging - retiring rooms and dormitories available
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loco change or reversal - a terminal station. no through trains via sealdah.
5 traffic managenent - 7 / 10 (trains stopped invariably for minutes at several places in outer).
6 public announcement system - computerised + manual
7 public information system - manual + electronic display
8 rail enquiry number - 033 - 23503535, 23503537, 23503536, 26382217
9 nearest hotels - hotel ashok (rs.700 for double bed room - 100 m from station )
10 public urinals - at platform 7 and in south section
11 lavatory - available at pf 7 and south section
12 means of transportation fron station - taxi, bus, auto, hand pulled rickshaw
13 distance from bus stand - 200 metres
14 places of attraction - science city, nicco park, victoria
15 distance from nearest hospital - 300 m ( n r s medical
college, sealdah)
16 food and beverage - by comesum (infront of Pf 9A, 9B), jan ahaar at first floor
17 ticket counters - 10 on apc road, 8 inside main section and 6 in south section, often crowded
18 prs - available at 2nd floor. plenty of counters and too much rush, current reservation - available near main enquiry
19 division, zone - eastern railways, sealdah division
20 important trains - sdah ndls rajdhani, sdah ndls duronto
21 wheelers and book stall - available, gita press, wheelers in main section
22 medical shops - none
23 cloak room - available
24 wheelchair - available
25 fob - none
26 total platforms - 20 platform, main section - 13, south section - 7(inputs from joydeep**)
27 signalling - automated electric signalling system
28 avg stoppage time of trains - terminal. TOT for emu ~10 mins
29 trains originating - about 15 to 20 per day
30 trains skiiping - none.
31 nearest airport - netaji subhash (8 km)
32 salient point - please get down at sdah, and walk 50 m
to reach south section, to get trains for bakkhali and namkhana (nearest railhead for namkhana)

#railstations list of services-
1 water taps - none
2 shed - present for platform 1. covers 10% of platform length
3 lodging - none
4 loco change or reversal - none
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traffic managenent - 9 / 10. almost all kolkata bound trains stop at ptkr for platform clearance
6 public announcement system - manual
7 public information system - none
8 rail enquiry number - none
9 nearest hotels - hotel mandoline, lake town (rs.700 for double bed room - 2 km from station )
10 public urinals - none
11 lavatory - none
12 means of transportation fron station - by foot upto jessore road (hardly 200 metre)
13 distance from bus stand - 200 metres
14 places of attraction - jorasanko thakur bari, Science City
15 distance from nearest hospital - 2 km ( r g kar medical college, shyambazar)
16 food and beverage - by local vendors , poor quality
17 ticket counters - 1 unreserved, always vacant
18 prs - none, current reservation - not available
19 division, zone - eastern railways, sealdah division
20 important trains - bbdb knj local, gede mjt local
21 wheelers and book stall - none
22 medical shops - none
23 cloak room - none
24 wheelchair - not available
25 fob - none
26 total platforms - 1 platform, main platform - Pf 1
27 signalling - automated electric signalling system
28 avg stoppage time of trains - 1 minute
29 trains originating - none
30 trains skiiping - none.
31 nearest airport - netaji subhash (5 km)
32 salient point - please get down at ptkr, and walk 100 m to reach jessore road. all important buses and taxi avlbl from jessore road

#railstations list of services-
1 water taps - about fifty altogether
2 shed - preaent for all 3 platforms. covers 50% of platform length
3 lodging - retiring rooms and dormitories available
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change or reversal - none
5 traffic managenent - 9 / 10
6 public announcement system - computerised
7 public information system - manually written black board
8 rail enquiry number - 06436 - 222061
9 nearest hotels - green hotel (rs.400 for double bed room)
10 public urinals - 3 on each platform
11 lavatory - none
12 means of transportation fron station - rickshaw (rs.15 starting)
13 distance from bus stand - 100 metres
14 places of attraction - moti jharna , udhwa lake , rajmahal hills
15 distance from nearest hospital - 3 km (sadar hospital)
16 food and beverage - by local vendors , poor quality
17 ticket counters - 2 unreserved, generally vacant
18 prs - 2 counters, quite crowded
19 division, zone - eastern railways, malda division
20 important trains - brahmaputra mail, sbg jmp pass, jmp hwh
21 wheelers and book stall - one in no. on pf 1
22 medical shops - none
23 cloak room - none
24 wheelchair - available
25 fob - one in number
26 total platforms - 3 ( 1 island platform), main platform - Pf 1
27 signalling - automated electric signalling system
28 avg stoppage time of trains - 10 minutes
29 trains originating - 1 express, 5 passengers
30 trains skiiping - none.
31 nearest airport - phulwari (300km)
32 salient point - please get down at sbg, and cross ganga by lct launches to reach katihar and north bihar.