Railway station named after Sambhaji
The Railways on Sunday announced that the Aurangabad railway station in Maharashtra has been officially renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar station, nearly three years after the city’s name was changed. The new station code will be ‘CPSN’, the Central Railway said in a statement.
Aurangabad, originally named after Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, was renamed to honour Chhatrapati Sambhaji, the son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the second ruler of the Maratha Empire. The railway station, which opened in 1900 during the reign of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, now bears the same name as the city.
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