Howrah Station: Busiest Railway Station

There are some photos that remain close to the heart. A few images of Howrah Station​ is such for mine. I captured them with my iPhone 7 on a fine winter morning inside the station.

Howrah Station is one of the busiest railway stations in the world. It is located in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. About 600 passenger trains pass through the station each day, utilizing its 23 platforms, and serving more than one million passengers per day. Howrah is one of five intercity train stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area (including Howrah and its twin city of Kolkata), the others being Sealdah, Santragachi, Shalimar, and Kolkata railway station.

Howrah Junction railway station is the oldest station and largest railway complex in India with a maximum number of platforms in the entire railway system of India, 23 platforms. The terminal station is located on the west bank of the Hooghly River, linked to Kolkata by the Howrah Bridge.

You can get a more details in wikipedia.

A brief story behind the photos

I went to the station with my mother to help onboard her. She was traveling to our native place. So I brought the platform ticket only. For your information, photography is prohibited in the Howrah Station, in fact, it is prohibited in most of the Indian big railway stations. Particularly in Howrah station, there are a lot of Railway Protection Force with machine guns and they keep a close eye on that and different other security-related activities. I was simply taking photos with my iPhone, but with some care so that no one notices me. Somehow one RPF personnel saw me and they took my phone. It was a brand new iPhone 7. And they took it and was saying they are not about to return it.

After one hour of arguments and tussle, they agreed that I have to write a letter to get it back. So, I had to do that. I didn’t have much choice. And then, I wrote a letter mentioning my address, phone number, and note that I won’t do that again. They checked all the photos I took and asked me to delete all the photos in front of them. After all of these, they finally returned my phone. Once I was just outside the station, I recovered all the deleted photos immediately, and here are some in this blog including the video.

Here are a few images of Howrah Station I took with the iPhone 7 and one video link posted on YouTube.

Howrah Station - In a fine winter morning.
Howrah Station: In a fine morning.
A shoeshiner or boot polisher.
A shoeshiner or boot polisher.
Two muslim women.
Two muslim women.
Sunshine from window -  Howrah Station. People are standing and created big shadows.
Sunshine from window.
A dog and passengers are inside the Howrah Station. Wonder light coming through the big window in a winter morning. Light and shadows created the drama.
A dog and passengers are inside the Howrah Station. Wonder light coming through the big window in a winter morning.
A man taking sunbath inside the station
A man taking sunbath.
Video Clip

Here is a video clip (time: 56 sec) I shot with iPhone 7 and then converted it to black and white. It will show the environment and overall background of how I got these images.

A video clip I shot with iPhone 7 inside the station.

I have posted similar images from New York’s Grand Central station. Please find it here –