Stations Trivia
Shortest station name
Ib, near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway) and Od, on the Anand-Godhra section of WR. Some station names with three letters are Ait (between Jhansi and Kanpur), Ara (between Mughalsarai and Patna), Bir (between Khandwa and Itarsi), Mau (between Varanasi and Gorakhpur), Ata, Kem, Pen, etc. -- there are many others. (Note: "Bad" is...
more... a misspelling of "Baad" in the CR timetables.)
Longest station name
Venkatanarasimharajuvariipeta (Halt). This is sometimes spelled with 'Sri' prefixed, making it even longer by 3 letters. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway (the first station after Renigunta towards Arakkonam (just within the AP border). Station code VKZ. It is in the Chennai division of SR and not in the Guntakal division of SCR.