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[[File:Howrah Station view 16.jpg|thumb|Howrah Station]]

'''Howrah Railway Station''' was the terminus of the ‘[[East Indian Railway]]’ (EIR) from the time of the inaugural train on 15 Aug 1854. [[Howrah]] was connected to [[Calcutta]] crossing the Hooghly River first by boat then, from the early 1870’s by the [[Howrah Floating Bridge and Howrah Bridge| ‘Howrah Floating Bridge’ and finally in 1943 by the ‘Howrah Bridge’ ''- see separate page'']]

==Second Howrah Station==

In 1900 the ‘[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]]’(BNR) opened the [[Bengal-Nagpur_Railway_-_Lines_Owned_and_Worked#1918_BG_Network| ‘Calcutta Extension Line’ ]] from [[Sini]] to [[Howrah]]; 171 miles(274km) and the need for a new building became imperative <ref name=Symph/>A new station building was proposed in 1901. The new station was designed by the British architect Halsey Ricardo<ref name=Purono/>.