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James Street
Indian Railways and Hyderabad MMTS station
James Street railway station
General information
Location	Secunderabad India
Coordinates	17°25′58.4″N 78°29′12.3″E / 17.432889°N 78.486750°E / 17.432889; 78.486750
Elevation	522 metres (1,713 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	JET
Zone(s)	South Central Railway
Division(s)	Hyderabad
History
Opened	1874; 150 years ago (1874)
Location James Street railway stationLocation in Hyderabad

James Street railway station is a railway station in Secunderabad, Telangana. The station was built in 1874 and was the second station after Secunderabad station on the Hyderabad–Wadi sector by Nizam State Railways. The station derives its name from erstwhile James Street located adjacent to this station. After India's independence, this street was later renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Road. The railways station was amongst the first railway stations to have been built as a self-financed first railway line from Secunderabad to Wadi by the sixth Nizam Mir Mahbub Ali Khan Bahadur. This railway line later became part of the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. In 1951, James Town railway station and the line were made a part of Central Railway zone.

Lines

• Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System
  • Falaknuma–Hyderabad (FH line)

References

1. "James Street Railway Station Map/Atlas SCR/South Central Zone - Railway Enquiry".
2. "James Street railway station to be revived". The Hindu. Hyderabad. 25 July 2002. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
3. "Will James Street station get facelift?". Telangana Today. Hyderabad. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.

External links

• MMTS Timings as per South Central Railway
• MMTS Train Timings

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