Although the Nagpur Railways first began in 1867, the station was inaugurated in its current form only in the year 1925. That is because, initially, the railway station was located towards the east of its current site. Nagpur Junction Railway Station is famous for its ‘double diamond crossing’. A diamond crossing in is the point where two railway lines cross each other forming the shape of diamonds at their point of intersection. The double diamond railway at Nagpur is formed by two double lines crossing each other.
A Diamond Crossing in railway terminology is the point where two railway lines cross (not necessarily at right angles, forming the shape of diamonds at the crossing point. They are extremely rare and the most famous one, the Diamond Crossing at Nagpur is a Double Diamond Railway crossing formed by two double lines crossing each other. only three major rail lines meet at Nagpur junction railway station. One comes from the east, from Gondia, the Howrah – Rourkela – Raipur line. The other comes from the north, from New Delhi. The last one goes towards the South, carrying trains to both the west and the south. This line splits into two separate lines to the west (Mumbai) and the South (Kazipet) only at Wardha, some 80 km away. And only one of these lines form part of the diamond crossing, the Gondia line.
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