The present car and bus parking areas, as well as the path to the station, formed part of a coal loading yard.

[2] The present-day platforms were once used as goods lines and formed part of the large Chitpur Rail Yard.

Due to its central position in Kolkata, the Sealdah station is too busy for suburban train traffic.

But the project could not take off owing to certain problems relating to infrastructure and the considerable distance of the terminal from Kolkata proper.

The proposal has been accepted by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), and on 15 May 2003, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee laid the foundation stone for the project.

Next, the Dumdum–Majherhat link rail line's (Kolkata Circular Railway) track was temporarily re-aligned.

Other tracks were re-aligned, and completely electrified for passenger coaches shunting (up to side of Tala station).

The station is linked to the Sealdah–Ranaghat–Krishnanagar–Berhampore–Lalgola line and is served by the Eastern Railway for trains to Naihati, Bandel, Kalyani Simanta, Gede, Shantipur, Krishnanagar, Berhampore, Lalgola, Dankuni, Barddhaman, Katwa, Bongaon, Hasnabad and others.