Jabalpur Junction railway station
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Jabalpur Junction
जबलपुर जंक्शन |
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| Express train and Passenger train station | |
Jabalpur Station
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| Location |
Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh India |
| Coordinates | 23°09′53″N 79°57′04″E / 23.16472°N 79.95111°ECoordinates: 23°09′53″N 79°57′04″E / 23.16472°N 79.95111°E |
| Elevation | 410.870 metres (1,348.00 ft) |
| Owned by | Indian Railways |
| Line(s) |
Mumbai-Howrah Allahabad-Jabalpur section Jabalpur-Balaghat section Jabalpur-Bhusaval section |
| Platforms | 6 |
| Tracks | 10 |
| Connections | Taxi Stand, Auto Stand, City Bus Terminus |
| Construction | |
| Parking | Available |
| Other information | |
| Station code | JBP |
| Fare zone | West Central Railway |
| Electrified | No |
Jabalpur Junction (Station Code : JBP), is an important railway junction station of Jabalpur City in Madhya Pradesh. It is the headquarters of West Central Railway.
The station is sometimes called the Jabalpur main station. Jabalpur serves as the headquarters of the West Central Railway zone and is one of the busiest railway stations in Madhya Pradesh. Jabalpur being the third largest city of Madhya Pradesh and with no suburban railway system caused the British to build 10 different railway stations across the city to manage the railway traffic and passengers across the city.
The Jabalpur station is one of the major stations in the Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line (via Bhusawal, Khandwa, Itarsi, Katni, Allahabad, Mughal Sarai, Dhanbad) and construction is under progress for Jabalpur-Nagpur narrow gauge conversion to broad gauge.
The railway station of Jabalpur is located on broad gauge line and is a terminus for a narrow gauge line. It consists of 6 broad gauge platforms and 1 narrow gauge platform.
The Jabalpur Junction is a broad gauge station. It is connected with Katni to the north east, Itarsi to the south west. On 1 October Narrow gauge line stop working as per order of railway ministry hence this rail route is converting as Jabalpur Nagpur broad gauge line. Within state, it is well connected to Bhopal, Ujjain, Gwalior Junction, Indore, Khandwa, Ratlam and Bina. In the 2011-2012 Railway Budget, a new line up to Sagar via Udaipura is proposed for survey. And A train Betwesn Jabalpur and Bilaspur Junction also proposed.
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