On 26th February 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually lay the foundation stone for the re-development of the station at cost of ₹335 Crores.

Sakchi was identified as the ideal site for an envisaged steel plant in December 1907.

The name of the railway station was later changed to Tatanagar in honour of its founder Jamsetji Tata.

The city's importance as an industrial hub encouraged travel patterns linking to much of India via the station.

[4] For the duration of the epidemic train services were instead diverted to checkpoints where passengers could be assessed for symptoms of smallpox.