Bharuch railway station Junction and Golden Bridge on Narmada river, Gujarat. भरूच, नर्मदा नदी पुल

Описание: bharuch station. bharuch railway station. bharuch city. bharuch junction and Golden Bridge on Narmada river, Gujarat. भरूच, नर्मदा नदी पुल
Bharuch Junction is a railway station on the Western Railway network, located in Bharuch, Gujarat, India.

It is an important halt for all trains that are bound for Ahmedabad Junction, Jaipur Junction, Mumbai, Amritsar and Delhi.
Bharuch (Gujarati: ભરૂચ; About this sound listen (help·info)), also known as Broach, is a City at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat (Central-West India). Bharuch is the administrative headquarters of Bharuch District and is a municipality of about 370,000 inhabitants. Being one of the biggest industrial areas including Ankleshwar GIDC, it is at times referred as chemical capital of India.
The main lines passing through Bharuch Junction are :
Mumbai – New Delhi line via Kota Junction ( broad gauge line)
Mumbai – Ahmedabad via Vadodara Junction
Some of the important trains that pass through Bharuch Junction are:

12009/10 Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express
11453/54 Prerana Express
12961/62 Avantika Express
19707/08 Aravali Express
12953/54 August Kranti Rajdhani Express
12833/34 Howrah Ahmedabad Superfast Express
19019/20 Dehradun Express
19023/24 Firozpur Janata Express
12901/02 Gujarat Mail
14707/08 Ranakpur Express
22451/52 Chandigarh Bandra Terminus Superfast Express
22901/02 Bandra Terminus Udaipur Superfast Express
11095/96 Ahimsa Express
19131/32 Kutch Express
19109/10 Gujarat Queen
12925/26 Paschim Express
12215/16 Delhi Sarai Rohilla Bandra Terminus Garib Rath Express
IRCTC, http://irctc.co.in http://www.indianrail.gov.in
The Golden Bridge connects Ankleshwar to Bharuch in the Gujarat state of western India. It was built in 1881 by the British, who needed a bridge across the Narmada River to create better access to trade and administration officials in Bombay (now called Mumbai).The Bridge is also called Narmada Bridge.
The British started the work to build the bridge on 7th December 1877. The bridge was built on May 16, 1881 at a cost of Rs 45.65 lakhs and it was called Narmada Bridge. Later it came to be known as the Golden Bridge on account of heavy expenditure incurred on building it. After independence, it was part of the national highway. However, flow of heavy traffic was restricted on it after a new national highway was built.it is made up of iron.

The Golden Bridge has seen many floods and natural disasters like earthquakes, but it has stood for 132 years, providing daily transportation to the people of Ankleshwar and Bharuch. length of golden brudge 1412m
The city of Bharuch and its surroundings have been settled since times of antiquity. It was a ship building center and sea port in the pre-compass coastal trading routes to points West, perhaps as far back as the days of the Pharaohs. The route made use of the regular and predictable monsoon winds or galleys. Many goods from the Far East (the famed Spice and Silk trade) were shipped there during the annual monsoon winds, making it a terminus for several key land-sea trade routes. Bharuch was known to the Greeks, the various Persian Empires, in the Roman Republic and Empire, and in other Western centres of civilisation through the end of the European Middle Ages.
The city has textile mills, chemical plants, long staple cotton, dairy products and much more. Gujarat's biggest liquid cargo terminal is situated there.[citation needed] It also houses many multinational companies, such as Videocon, BASF, Reliance, Safari Construction Equipments Pvt. Ltd.[4] and Welspun Maxsteel Ltd.[citation needed] Bharuch is a shopping center well known for its salty peanuts.[citation needed] Because of the distinctive colour of its soil (which is also ideal for cotton cultivation), Bharuch is sometimes referred to as 'Kanam Pradesh' (black-soil land).
Bharuch has always been prosperous because of its location on the Narmada River. Although water tends to be scarce in Gujarat, one never finds difficulty in getting water in Bharuch. As a result of this, agriculture and other linked commercial activities have flourished in Bharuch. Bharuch is also a central stopping point for many villages spread around its boundaries. People from these small villages come to Bharuch when they want to shop for new clothes, or make a major purchase. Lately a lot of retiring expatriates have been returning to Bharuch and building new houses giving the economy a boost.