Itarsi Junction railway station
Itarsi اٹارسي جنکشن
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Location | Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh |
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Elevation | 329.400 metres (1,080.71 ft) |
Owned by | Indian Railways |
Line(s) | Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line Delhi-Chennai line |
Platforms | 7 |
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Status | Functioning |
Station code | ET |
Zone(s) | West Central Railways |
Division(s) | Bhopal railway division |
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Itarsi Junction (Station Code : ET) is a railway station in Hoshangabad District in Madhya Pradesh which passes more than 330 trains through it. It falls under the West Central Railway zone of Indian Railways network. It is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) away from Hoshangabad. Trains from Central Railway undergo engine changes here i.e. electric engines of WAP/WAM/WAG class are changed to diesel engines of WDP/WDM/WDG class and vice versa. These changes happen for trains which pass through Jabalpur-Katni-Satna railway line and sometimes for trains which pass through Bhopal.
Itarsi is the only junction in the state of Madhya Pradesh along with Maharashtra, Southern Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh which has stoppage for 330+ trains daily. For instance, Bhopal Junction halts 270 trains followed by Nagpur 240 trains, Jhansi 225 trains, and Bilaspur 125 trains.
Contents
Structure and location
The railway station of Itarsi consist of total 7 platforms. The platform is well furnished to meet up with all the passenger needs and demands. The railway junction provides the following facility at different platforms:
- Waiting halls
- Ticket counters (reserved and unreserved)
- Mineral RO vendors
- Cafe
- Railway restaurant
- Garden
- Toilets and sanitation
- Over bridge
- Railway hospital
- Coaching centre
- STD booths
- Information booths
- Luggage room
Connectivity
Itarsi Junction Railway station is very well connected with rail routes from all four sides. Thus the trains for almost all the Indian destinations such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Patna, Indore, Bhopal, Jhansi,Gwalior, Jabalpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Allahabad, Bareily, Dehradun, Jammu, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer, Ratlam, Ujjain, Rajkot, Surat, Bhuj, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Mysore, Trivandrum, Coimbatore, Ernakulum, Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Puri, Bhuwaneswar, Guwahati, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Kannur and others are easily available. There is more than a single train to reach many important destinations from Itarsi such as:
- New Delhi (31 Trains)
- Mumbai (45 Trains)
- Kolkata (7 Trains)
- Chennai (18 Trains)
- Hyderabad (26 Trains)
- Bangalore (18 Trains)
- Pune (16 Trains)
- Ahmedabad (12 Trains)
- Trivandrum (15 Trains)
- Patna (13 Trains)
- Kanpur (10 Trains)
- Lucknow (32 Trains)
- Jabalpur (63 Trains)
- Indore (11 Trains)
- Bhopal (77 Trains Click here for details)
- Jaipur (14 Trains)
- Mysore (8 Trains)
- Puri (2 Trains)
- Guwahati (3 Trains)
- Ranchi (2 Trains)
- Varanasi (22 Trains)
- Jhansi (52 Trains)
- Vasco Da Gama (2 Trains)
Track position
The tracks on the junction are such that they provide a vast connection to all the four directions.To the north lies the important capital city of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal. To the east lies another railway junction Jabalpur. To the southwest lies Khandwa and Bhusawal, and to the southeast lies Amla Jn., Betul and Nagpur. The station always holds heavy over-traffic as the trains on the Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line and Jhansi – Bhopal Jn. – Nagpur routes cross at Itarsi.
Important trains passing through
- Ahilyanagari Express
- GT Express
- Tamil Nadu Express
- Chennai Rajdhani
- Kushinagar Express
- Kongu Express
- Pushpak Express
- Mahanagari Express
- Kamayani Express
- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Varanasi Superfast Express
- Jabalpur - Mumbai Garibrath Express
- Satpura Express
- Ernakulam-Hazrat Nizamudeen Mangala Lakshadweep Express
- Andhra Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express
- Punjab Mail
- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Amritsar Express
- Jhelum Express
- Nagpur - Jabalpur Super Express
- Rajendranagar Express
- Vindhyachal Express
- Jabalpur - Habibganj Jan Shatabdi Express
- Godaan Express
- Tulsi Express
- Bikaner Chennai AC Express
- Kamakhya - Mumbai LTT AC Express
- Goa Express
- Karnataka Express
- Ganga Kaveri Express
- Bagmati Express
See also
References
- Use dmy dates from September 2015
- Use Indian English from September 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
- Articles using Infobox station with map locator
- Pages with no open date in Infobox station
- Railway junction stations in Madhya Pradesh
- Bhopal railway division
- Railway stations in Hoshangabad district