Ib railway station in Odisha has the distinction of having the shortest name of all stations on the Indian railway system. The station derives its name from the nearby Ib River. Ib railway station started with the opening of the Nagpur-Asansol main line of Bengal Nagpur Railway in 1891. It became a station on the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line in 1900. In 1900, when Bengal Nagpur Railway was building a bridge across the Ib River, coal was accidentally discovered in what later became Ib Valley Coalfield.
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