Puri railway station

Puri railway station is a Terminal train station and serves Puri, the sea-shore temple city in the Indian state of Odisha.HistoryThe Khurda Road-Puri section was opened to traffic on 1 February 1897.Railway reorganizationThe Bengal Nagpur Railway was nationalized in 1944.Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 with the portion of East Indian Railway Company east of Mughalsarai and the Bengal Nagpur Railway. In 1955, South Eastern Railway was carved out of Eastern Railway. It comprised lines mostly operated by BNR earlier. Amongst the new zones started in April 2003 were East Coast Railway and South East Central Railway. Both these railways were carved out of South Eastern Railway.