Bikaner Junction railway station

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Bikaner
Indian Railway junction station
Location Bikaner, Rajasthan
India
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Elevation 234.696 metres (770.00 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Operated by North Western Railway
Line(s) Jodhpur–Bathinda line
Bikaner–Rewari line
Platforms 6
Tracks Broad gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Construction
Structure type Standard on ground
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities No
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code BKN
Division(s) Bikaner railway division
History
Opened 1891
Electrified No
Location
Bikaner railway station is located in Rajasthan
Bikaner railway station
Bikaner railway station
Location in Rajasthan

Bikaner railway station is located in Bikaner district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It serves Bikaner. Bikaner is headquarters of Bikaner railway division.

The railway station

Bikaner railway station is at an elevation of 226 metres (741 ft) and was assigned the code – BKN. [1]

Bikaner is served by more than 21 pairs of trains each day with multiple daily connections to Delhi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Mumbai and Chandigarh. Within Rajasthan, there are also multiple daily trains available for Jodhpur, Jaipur, Nagaur, Ratangarh, Churu, Barmer and Jaisalamer. There are also daily trains to Kota.

Daily connections to Pathankot, Amritsar, Jammu, Kalka, Haridwar, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Durgapur, Kolkata, Guwahati and Dibrugarh are also available.

Most other major Indian cities such as Pune, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Kochi, Trivandrum, Goa, Puri, Bubaneswar, Sambalpur, Raipur, Bilaspur and Bhopal are connected via weekly, biweekly or tri-weekly trains.

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History

In 1889, the two states of Jodhpur and Bikhaner formed the Jodhpur–Bikaner Railway to promote railway development jointly within the Rajasthan Agency. In 1891 the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) wide metre gauge Jodhpur–Bikaner line was opened. In 1901–02, the metre gauge line was extended to Bathinda.[3][4]

Gauge conversions

The Jodhpur–Bikaner track, along with the link to Phulera, had been taken in/before 1991 for conversion to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) wide broad gauge.[5] According to a Press Information Bureau release issued in 2008, the Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line was broad gauge.[6]

The Bikaner-Rewari line was converted to broad gauge during the period 2008-2011.[7]

Workshop

The Bikaner (Lalgarh) workshop was set up in 1926. It carries out periodic overhauling of metre gauge coaches and wagons.[8][9]

Museum

Bikana Heritage Rail Museum at Bikaner displays items related to the Jodhpur and Bikaner Railway era. It was opened in 2012.[10]

Services

References

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  2. ↑ http://indiarailinfo.com/
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External links

North Western Railway zone
Terminus North Western Railway zone
Bikaner–Rewari line


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