What are central and terminal stations? What is the difference between them? | Indian Railway

If you are fond of traveling by train, then you must have seen many times that you have seen central and terminal written in front of the names of many stations, today in this post I am going to tell you all about this, someone Why the central or terminal is written in front of the station name.
 

Central Station

Friends,

Any railway station is called a central station, when that station is the busiest and important station among many stations of the same city, the central railway station is usually a very large railway station, where almost every zone of a train railway Connects to

Such a railway station was named in the British era, it is not necessary that a busy station in a busy city should be called a central station.

At present, there are a total of five central railway stations in India, namely:

• Kanpur Central (CNB)
• Mangalore Central (MAQ)
• Mumbai Central (BCT)
• Trivandrum Central (TVC)
• Chennai Central (MAS)

Terminal station

Terminal stations are also called terminus stations or satellite stations, railway stations where trains cannot proceed after arrival, i.e. they have to go back to the Reverse Direction on the same route again, such stations are mostly seaside. Are built along the banks, where there is no possible way to go further, there are many Surrey stations in India which do not have a terminal in their name like Puri railway station and Howrah railway station, so you do not have to worry. .

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)

Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT)
 
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