James Street railway station, Hyderabad

For the station in Liverpool, England, see Liverpool James Street railway station.

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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
Elevation	522 metres (1,713 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Platforms	2 [1]
Other information
Station code	JET
Zone(s)	South Central Railway
Division(s)	Hyderabad
History
Opened	1874; 151 years ago (1874)
Location James Street railway station Location in Hyderabad

Lines

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