Bilaspur Junction Railway Station (station code BSP), located in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, serves Bilaspur in Bilaspur district.
History The railway station came up in 1889 with the opening of Rajnandgaon to Bilaspur extension of erstwhile Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway taken over by Bengal Nagpur Railway and construction of the Nagpur–Asansol main line of Bengal Nagpur Railway, which opened in 1891. The station building was constructed in 1890. It became a station on the crosscountry Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line in 1900.
Electrification The Rourkela–Bilaspur section was electrified in 1969–70 while Bilaspur–Nagpur in 1976–77 and Bilaspur–Katni in 1981.
Zonal HQ Bilaspur is headquarters of South East Central Railway.
Electric Loco Shed, Bilaspur Bilaspur Electric Loco Shed was commissioned on 2018. Serial No. Locomotive Class Horsepower Quantity 1. WAG-9 6120 236 2. EF12K 12000 28Total Locomotives Active as of February 2026 264
Busy station Bilaspur is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway. as about 340 passenger trains and goods trains passes every day.
Important trains 18477/ Kalinga Utkal Express 12441/ Bilaspur Rajdhani Express 12130/ Azad Hind Express 18237/ Chhattisgarh Express 12823/ Chhattisgarh Sampark Kranti Superfast Express 12102/ Jnaneswari Express 12810/ Howrah–Mumbai Mail 12855/ Bilaspur–Itwari Intercity Superfast Express 18029/ Shalimar–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express 22815/ Ernakulam–Bilaspur Express 12851/ Bilaspur–Chennai Central Superfast Express 22619/ Tirunelveli–Bilaspur Express 20826/ Bilaspur–Nagpur Vande Bharat Express
Achievements Bilaspur Junction railway station has many achievements: Bilaspur Junction is third-cleanest railway station and cleanest zonal headquarter railway station of India. (Survey 2015–16) Here is fifth-longest railway platform in Bilaspur Junction.
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