Dankuni Junction railway station is an important railway station serving Kolkata metropolitan area, Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Dankuni lies on the Howrah–Bardhaman chord line. This railway station is one of the important railway station that serves Kolkata Metropolis, alongwith Howrah, Sealdah, Santragachi, Shalimar and Kolkata. Dankuni has significantly reduced the traffic congestion of Howrah railway station by emerging as a major halting point in Kolkata Metropolis for those mail and express trains plying to and fro the southern states of India to the Eastern India and Northeast India which previously use to run via Howrah. It also provides a railway interchange between the Howrah and Sealdah rail division.