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The East Central Railway will be celebrating 100 years of the completion of the Grand Chord section on December 6. The 450-km Grand Chord section, originally under East India Railway then Eastern Railway and now under East Central Railway, links Dhanbad with Mughal Sarai, providing an alternative and faster route from Kolkata to Delhi.

The work on the Grand Chord was completed in two parts, the first between Gaya and Mughal Sarai covering a distance of 241 km in 1900 and the second 209-kmDhanbad-Gaya section in 1906. Viceroy Lord Minto opened the entire route for traffic on December 6, 1906, by putting a silver bolt on the track. On December 6, East Central Railway will commemorate the event by running a heritage train between Gaya and Gujhandi.

The Grand Chord section is critically important even today, handling major passenger trains on the Howrah-Delhi route, particularly all the Rajdhani Expresses, and the entire freight traffic, particularly coal, handled by the Dhanbad division of East Central Railway.

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