For the nearby village with the same name, see Balamau.
Balamau is a train station in Hardoi district of Lucknow division of Uttar Pradesh. It is located in Kachhauna, four miles northeast of its namesake village of Balamau. It lies on the Amritsar–Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction main line, 9 km (5.6 mi) from the previous station at Baghauli and 8 km (5.0 mi) from the next station at Dalelnagar. It is also the terminus of two branch lines, one leading to Kanpur and the other leading to Sitapur. The Balamau–Kanpur and Balamau–Sitapur lines both use metre-gauge tracks.
In 1903 a new east–west branch line was built connecting Balamau station to Madhoganj. Around this time, Balamau station was described as having "a considerable trade in grain", with most of it brought by cart from the village of Balamau.
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- ^ Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (36 - Hardoi District) (PDF). Lucknow. 1965. p. 144. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Nevill, H. R. (1904). Hardoi - A Gazetteer. Allahabad: Government Press. pp. 158–61. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- Census 1981 Uttar Pradesh: District Census Handbook Part XIII-A: Village & Town Directory, District Hardoi (PDF). 1982. pp. 12, 360–1, 372–3. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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