Gwalior Junction
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PF1 of Gwalior Junction Railway Station
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Location | Lashkar, Gwalior India |
Coordinates | 26°12′58″N 78°10′55″E / 26.21611°N 78.18194°E |
Owned by | Indian Railways |
Line(s) |
Delhi–Chennai line Agra–Bhopal section Guna–Gwalior–Etawah Section |
Platforms | 1, 2, 3, 4 (broad gauge), 5 (narrow gauge) 2 broad gauge to be made |
Tracks | 6 broad gauge 1 narrow gauge |
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Station code | GWL |
Fare zone | Jhansi Division, Northern Central Railway |
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Gwalior railway station (station code: GWL) is an important railway station of Gwalior City in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is operated by North Central Railway.
The Gwalior Junction GWL is part of the Jhansi Division of the North Central Railways.
Gwalior is one of the major commercial railway stations of the North Central Railway of Indian Railways, which zonal Headquarters is centered in Allahabad. The station has won awards from Indian Railways for clean infrastructure in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1992. Express trains such as the Bhopal Express, Taj Express, Rajdhani Express, Garib Rath Express, Bhopal Shatabdi, [[H.Nizamuddin Jabalpur MP Sampark kranti Express]] and about 150 trains (considering both up and down tracks) stop at Gwalior and 10 trains originating from Gwalior.
Gwalior is, perhaps, one of the few places where both narrow-gauge and broad-gauge railway tracks are still operational. The Gwalior narrow-gauge track is the narrowest in India.
Gwalior is well connected via train services to all parts of the country including 4 metros. There are direct trains to Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata (Howrah), Chennai, Ujjain, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam (Kochi), Indore, Ahmedabad, Jabalpur, Jammu, Lucknow, Bhopal, Bangalore, Jaipur, Udaipur, Dehradun and other major towns. Gwalior is the main station serving most of the important and long distance trains. There are two other stations within the city limits, named Birla nagar and Sithouli. These stations interconnect to other stations and also serve the short distance trains connecting Gwalior to nearby towns and villages.