Rajkot Junction railway station

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Rajkot Junction
राजकोट जंक्शन
રાજકોટ જંકશન
Indian Junction Railway Station
Location Rajkot, Gujarat
 India
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Elevation 128 m (420 ft)
Line(s) Viramgam-Okha line
Rajkot-Somnath line
Rajkot - Jetalsar - Porbandar line
Platforms 5
Tracks 9
Construction
Structure type standard
Parking yes
Other information
Status functioning
Station code RJT
Zone(s) Western Railways
Division(s) Rajkot railway division
History
Opened 1890
Electrified No
Previous names Rajkot-Jetalsar Railway
Location
Rajkot railway station is located in Gujarat
Rajkot railway station
Rajkot railway station
Location in Gujarat

Rajkot Junction railway station is the main railway station in the city of Rajkot in Gujarat, India. It falls under the Western Railways zone of the Indian Railways. It is the primary terminus for rail transport for the city; the other railway station in Rajkot is the Bhaktinagar Railway Station. Rajkot Railway Station has been awarded as the cleanest railway station in A1 category in the year 2016 in a survey conducted under 'Swachh Rail Swachh Bharat' mission[1] undertaken by Railway ministry in participation with IRCTC.

Facilities

The station has following facilities for rail travelers :

  • Passenger Reservation System (PRS)[2] for booking of reserved rail tickets
  • Stalls serving refreshments such as snacks, soft drinks and icecreams
  • ATM
  • Separate waiting rooms for regular class travelers and Air Conditioned (AC) class travelers
  • Well managed and spacious paid parking facilities for two - wheelers, cars, taxis, and on request parking (from RAJKOT RTO) for big vehicles such as bus, trucks, etc.
  • Railway Station infrastructure is Divyaang[3] friendly
  • Foot over Bridge (FOB) for easy inter platform movement with elevators
  • Safe and pure R.O. drinking water
  • Platform ticket and unreserved train travel ticket vending machines
  • Clean public wash rooms separately for male and female passengers
  • Escalators

Station development and modernization

The station is undergoing large-scale automation and infrastructure development. Doubling of the Viramgam - Surendranagar - Rajkot route is in progress, of which Viramgam - Surendranagar route is almost completed and is to be commissioned soon for use for regular rail traffic. Funds around Rs. 1,137.17 Crores for doubling between Surendranagar - Rajkot (116.17 Rail km) have been approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) of Government of India [4] chaired by honourable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi. The doubling between Surendranagar - Rajkot is scheduled to be completed in the year 2020. Once doubling of rail route upto Rajkot is completed, it will reduce travelling time between Rajkot - Ahmedabad by upto 1 hour and a half hour approximately from currently 5 hours, and is expected to increase the number of daily trains and traffic. Doubling of this line will greatly ease the ever increasing freight traffic between Okha-Rajkot, Porbandar-Kanalus, Veraval-Rajkot and Maliya Miyana / Navalakhi-Dahinsara-Wankaner section. The route (Ahmedabad - Rajkot) is also expected to be electrified in the near future. A proposal, is being considered for railway track doubling between Rajkot Jn.- Okha Railway Stations by Western Railway, which has been sent to Railway Board for their approval.

Destinations

Trains from the station serve the following destinations:

  • Gujarat: Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Okha, Bhuj, Mehasana, Anand, Nadiad, Junagadh, Palanpur, Gandhidham, Veraval, Somnath, Navsari, Dwarka
  • Maharashtra: Mumbai (Central), Mumbai (Bandra Terminus), Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Bhusaval, Jalgaon, Jalna, Solapur, Nanded
  • Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Satna, Saugor, Katni, Damoh, Itarsi, Narsinghpur, Dewas, Nagda, Ratlam, Rewa
  • Rajasthan: Jaipur, Ajmer, Abu Road, Falna, Kota, Nathdwara
  • Karnataka: Bengaluru (formally Bangalore), Mangaluru (formally Mangalore), Kalaburagi (popularly known as Gulbarga)
  • Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Nagercoil, Rameshwaram, Tuticorin, Salem, Erode
  • Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram (formally Trivandrum), Ernakulam, Kozhikode (formally Calicut), Kannur
  • Telangana : Secunderabad, Kachiguda (formally Kacheguda), Nizamabad
  • Andhra Pradesh : Visakhapatnam, Vijaywada, Tirupati, Adoni, Guntakal, Anantapur
  • Odisha : Puri
  • West Bengal: Howrah (Kolkata), Kharagpur, Santragachi, New Jalpaiguri
  • Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Agra, Ghaziabad, Allahbad, Mugal Sarai
  • Delhi : New Delhi and Delhi Sarai Rohilla
  • Punjab: Jalandhar
  • Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu, Udhampur, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
  • Bihar: Patna, Muzaffarpur
  • Chhatisgarh : Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg
  • Goa : Madgaon
  • Assam : Guwahati
  • Uttarakhand : Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkee

Trains

  1. Hapa Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Sarvodaya Superfast Express (12475/12476)
  2. Jamnagar Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Superfast Express (12477/12478)
  3. Hapa Madgaon Superfast Express (22907/22908)
  4. Rajkot Coimbtore Express (16613/16614)
  5. Somnath Jabalpur Express (via Itarsi) (11463/11464)
  6. Somnath Jabalpur Express (via Bina) (11465/11466)
  7. Rajkot Secunderabad Express (17017/17018)
  8. Porbandar Secunderabad Express (19201/19202)
  9. Saurashtra Mail (19005/19006)
  10. Saurashtra Janata Express (19017/19018)
  11. Saurashtra Express (19215/19216)
  12. Jamnagar Surat Intercity (19059/19060)
  13. Hapa Surat Intercity (29059/29060)
  14. Somnath Express (19221/19222)
  15. Howrah Porbandar Superfast Express (12905/12906) (Okha Hapa Link Express - 22905/22906)
  16. Porbandar Santragachi Kaviguru Superfast Express (12949/12950)
  17. Okha Puri Express (18401/18402)
  18. Okha Guwahati Dwarka Express (15635/15636)
  19. Okha Varanasi Express (19569/19570)
  20. Okha Gorakhpur Express (15045/15046)
  21. Porbandar Muzaffarpur Motihari Express (19269/19270)
  22. Uttaranchal Express (19565/19566)
  23. Okha Eranakulam Express (16337/16338)
  24. Veraval Trivandrum Express (16333/16334)
  25. Porbandar Kochuveli Express (19261/19262)
  26. Porbandar Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express (19263/19264)
  27. Veraval Pune Express (11087/11088)
  28. Hapa Tirunelveli Express (19577/19578)
  29. Rajkot Rewa Superfast Express(22937/22938)
  30. Okha Tuticorin Vivek Express (19567/19568)
  31. Okha Nathdwara Express (19575/19576)
  32. Okha Rameshwaram Express (16733/16734)
  33. Hapa Bilaspur Express (22939/22940)
  34. Somnath Okha Express (19251/19252)

References

  1. 'Swachh Rail Swachh Bharat' survey on Railway Station Cleanliness by Ministry of Rail in partnership with IRCTC - Indian Express
  2. Passenger Reservation System (PRS) - Centre for Railway Information (CRIS)
  3. Divyaang - People with divine abilities to outperform others
  4. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gives final approval alongwith funds allocation for doubling between Surendranagar - Rajkot railway line - Times of India

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