How many terminus railway stations are in India?

 •There is NO officially fixed number of terminal stations in India.

•In terms of busiest and most famous there are 13 terminus railway station in India

⭐The following Terminal Station (Broad Gauge)

1. MGR Chennai Central (MAS)

2) Mangalore Central (MAQ)

3)Hyderabad Deccan Nampally (HYB

4)Visakhapatnam Junction (VSKP)

5)Church Gate

6) Mumbai CSMT

7)Bandra Terminus (BDTS)

8)Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT)

9)Howrah Junction (HWH)

10)Sealdah (SLDH)

11)Shalimar (SHM)

12)Anand Vihar Terminal (Delhi) (ANVT)

13) Lucknow Junction NER (LJN)

•A terminal station (also called a terminus) in railways is a station where a train route ends or begins-the tracks do not continue beyond it.

•At end of the track there is no enough space to build railway track.These stations locates near Coastal area or the area where there is no space due to unavailability of land like

In forest areas and ghat section where buliding railway track is challenging, difficult terrain and near border regions where track extension is restricted, on low-demand routes where extension is planned for the future or temporarily halted due to funding issues, and in high-density areas where roads exist on the opposite side.

⭐Other terminal stations, state-wise”

•Kerala:Cochin Harbour Terminus, Nilambur Road & Guruvayur

•Karnataka:Talguppa, Chamarajanagar,Dandeli Marikuppam and SMVT Bengaluru Terminal.

•Tamilnadu:-Pattabiram Military Siding E Depot (Chennai)

Agastiyampalli(AGX),Velankanni, Mannargudi,Rameswaram,Tuticorin,Tiruchendur,Kanyakumari,Bodinayakanur and Mettur Dam Railway Station

•Pondicherry:-Pondicherry (PDY)

•Andhra Pradesh: Kakinada Port, Narsapur Machilipatnam,Repalle and Macherla

Telangana:Medak, Siddipet,Bodhan, Manuguru and Bhadrachalam Road.

•Goa:-Vasco Da Gama

•Maharashtra:Uran (Mumbai)

,Dhule.Sai Nagar Shirdi, Kolhapur( S CSM Terminal),Baramati, Khopoli, Amravati Terminal,Kalamb,Ramtek,Gadchandur and Akot

•Gujarat:Naliya,Okha, Porbandar,Somnath,Pipavav,Bhavnagar Terminus,Palitana,Velavadar,Khambhat,Kathana and Ekta Nagar (Kevadiya)

•Madhya Pradesh:-Mandla Fort

•Rajashthan:-Jaisalmer,Pokaran,Anupgarh,Sadarshahr And Parbatsar City

•Punjab:-Khem Karan,Dera Baba Nanak ,Hoshiarpur,Jaijon Doaba, Rahon,Qadian and Husainiwala (near Firozpur)

•Haryana:Kalka

•Himachal Pradesh:-Daulatpur Chowk

•Jammu and Kashmir:-Baramulla

•Uttarakhand:Dehradun, Rishikesh, Kotdwar Ramnagar,Kathgodam and Tanakpur

•Uttar Pradesh:-Nauntanwa,NepalGanj Road,Sambhal Hatim Sarai,Barhaj Bazar,Brahmavart,Shaktinagar,and Hathras Killah and Konch Railway Station

•Bihar:-Rajendra Nagar Terminal (Patna) Jogbani,Raxaul,laukaha Bazar,Bhikhna Thori,Bihariganj and Teznarayanpur

•West Bengal:

Digha,Haldia,Namkhana,Canning,Hasnabad,Diamond Harbour, Rajmahal and Lalgola

•Jharkhand:-Sindri Town,Gua,Barbil,Rajmahal and Giridih.

•Chhattisgarh: Kirandul,Dharamjaigarh Road,Rajim, Ambikapur, Chirimiri and Gevra Road near Korba,

Odisha:Puri,Paradeep,Junagarh Road,Gunupur Biramitrapur, Badampahar,Sardega and Barsuan

•North Eastern States:

Assam:Ledo,Sile (Pasighat), Dibrugarh Town Station,Dhubri,Mendi Pathar,Bhalukpong,Dangari,Dullabchera,Mairabari Silghat Town,Tezpur and Silchar

Arunachal Pradesh-Naharlagun

Nagaland:-Shokhuvi

•Tripura:-Sabroom

•Manipur:-Khongsang

Mizoram:Sairang

•Although a railway line may end at a terminal station, it does not necessarily mean permanent termination, as further extension is possible if infrastructure is developed or enough land available

A good example is Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, where trains initially terminated, but later the line was extended as part of the USBRL project linking Udhampur to Srinagar.

•There are many such terminal station exist despite enough land to extend

•Terminal stations such as Dhule, Sai Nagar Shirdi, and Kolhapur in Maharashtra, and Guruvayur Nilambur Road in Kerala have strong potential for major future development and expansion.

⭐Meter Gauge Terminal Station

•Tamilnadu:-Udagamandalam (Ooty)

•Gujarat:-Veravel (MG),Kodinar,Delvada and Amreli

•Madhya Pradesh:-Dr Ambedkar Nagar (MG) and Omkareshwar Road

•Uttar Pradesh:-Chandan chauki.Gauri Phanta,Nanpara (MG)

⭐Narrow Gauge Terminal Station

•West Bengal:-Darjeeling

•Himachal Pradesh:-Shimla,Jogindar Nagar

•Gujarat:Waghai

•Maharashtra:-Matheran

•So these are the 13 terminus railway stations that are among the busiest and most famous.”and also Revenue wise