Sealdah railway division is one of the four railway divisions under the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. Its headquarters is located in Kaiser Street in Kolkata, West Bengal near the Sealdah railway station. Geographically the division covers the railway tracks and services in the areas between the Hooghly river on the west, Bangladesh on the north and east and the Sundarbans in the south.
The total route length of the division is 715.34 km (444.49 mi) of which 690.075 km (428.793 mi) is fully electrified. The division is divided into 2 sections namely the Sealdah Main and North section and the Sealdah South section. The Sealdah Main section handles long distance trains to the rest of India while the Sealdah North section is a suburban section primarily serving the Northern districts of North 24 Parganas, Nadia and Murshidabad. The Sealdah South section is completely a suburban section connecting the Kolkata district with the numerous towns and villages of the South 24 Paraganas district and the Sundarbans. Both the sections are connected with each other via the Kolkata Circular Railway.
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