Triveni Express: Joining Shaktinagar and Bareilly
The Triveni Express is also popular by the name ‘The queen
of Sonbhadra’. This train runs between Shaktinagar or Singrauli and Bareilly,
joining these two places together. This train derives its name from the famous
‘Triveni Sangam’ of India, which is the meeting point of three rivers. These
three rivers are The Ganges, The Yamuna and The Saraswati (which is a dead
river now), which meet at Prayag, which is in Allahabad.
More about the train
Previously Triveni
express used to run between Lucknow and Allahabad, which later got extended
to Singrauli and then Bareilly via Hardoi and Shahjahanpur. This train covers a
distance of around 723 kilometers and takes an approximate time of 19 hours to
complete the journey. This express train has 32 stoppages among which the
important station halts are Mirzapur, Allahabad Junction, Lucknow and
Shahjahanpur.
From power to
historical significance
Shaktinagar is a small town located near Varanasi in Uttar
Pradesh. This place is known for its thermal plants and the energy these
thermal plants produce is around 98 percent with having the largest thermal
power generation in India. The coal is mainly supplied from the nine sources
around this town including Nigahi, Khakri, Bina, Khadia, Dudhichua and Jayant.
This place is also commonly known as the “power Capital of India’.
Bareilly, on the other hand, is located on Ramganga and is
the seventh largest city of the Uttar Pradesh state. Long back in 12th
century, this place was ruled by the Rajputs. Later people from Turkey invaded
this place, and even later, it became a part of the Delhi Sultanate.
If one goes by the facts of Mahabharata, the Epic, this Bareilly
was previously known as the Panchal Rajya, which was the birth place of
Draupadi. Lord Krishna named her Panchali as the name of her birth land
suggests. The local folk stories have a
different thing to say. They believe, that Gautama Buddha once came here in
Ahichhatra; which is the ancient fort city situated within Bareilly. This place
is archaeologically very rich because, there are still the remains of Ahichhatra,
which was a huge fort and are of a great historical significance. This is also
the richest terracotta zone in the entire India. People have dug and found some
exquisite pieces of terracotta works from Ahichhatra. Some huge terracotta
human figures were also discovered while excavating here.
It is also said that, Bareilly was founded way back in 1537
by Basdeo who was a Rajput and a Kshatriya. This place also has significance in
modern history. This place was the centre of the 1857 rebellion or the Sepoy
Mutiny. It is during this rebellion, the Muslim natives of Bareilly, Bijnor and
Muradabad raised their voices for the revival of Muslim kingdom.
This Triveni Express joins two cities, which has two
different significances. While one being a small town producing a huge amount
of thermal power, the other is the place of historical significance. The
culture and the uniqueness make them stand apart.
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