Bangarapet Junction railway station

Bangarapet railway station is located in Kolar district in the Indian state of Karnataka and serves Bangarapet.It is the second busiest Railway junction in KarnatakaHistoryMadras Railway connected Bangalore Cantonment to Jolarpettai as a branch on the newly constructed Chennai- Beypur line in 1864.The station was then known by the name as Kolar Road for its proximity to the Kolar Gold fields and later christined as Bowringpet the name of a District collector of Britishers of the area. Bangalore Mail started running around the same period the exact date not being very clear.The wide narrow gauge line between Bowringpet (later Bangarapet) and Kolar was opened in 1913 by Mysore State Railway. The narrow gauge Yeshvantapur-Devanhalli-Chikballapur line was opened in 1915 and was linked to Bangalore via sidlaghatta,chintamani,srinivasapura under Bangarpet-Bangalore Narrow gauge line in 1918. Gauge conversion of the Bangarpet-Kolar line was completed and opened for traffic in 1997 and since then it has been serviced by a railbus..Gauge conversion of Yelankha-Chickballapur was completed and opened for traffic in 2004.Then Guage conversion of Chickballapur-Kolar was completed and opened for traffic in November 2013 thus connecting the entire network into an Yelankha-Bangarpet Broad Gauge LineThe wide broad gauge Bangarpet-Marikuppam line came up in 1894.