Jabalpur Junction railway station

Jabalpur Junction
Indian Railway Station
Jabalpur Station
Location	Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh India
Coordinates	23°09′53″N 79°57′04″E / 23.16472°N 79.95111°E / 23.16472; 79.95111Coordinates: 23°09′53″N 79°57′04″E / 23.16472°N 79.95111°E / 23.16472; 79.95111
Elevation	410.870 metres (1,348.00 ft)
Owned by	Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways
Line(s)	Mumbai-Howrah Allahabad-Jabalpur section Jabalpur-Balaghat section Jabalpur-Bhusaval section
Platforms	6 Broad Gauge and 1 Narrow Gauge
Tracks	8 Broad Gauge and 2 Narrow Gauge
Connections	Taxi Stand, Auto Stand, City Bus Terminus
Construction
Parking	Available
Other information
Station code	JBP
Fare zone	West Central Railway

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). Construction is under progress for Jabalpur-Nagpur narrow gauge conversion to broad gauge under Indian Railways Project Unigauge.

Structure and Location

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. It is well sheltered and furnished, meeting up all the passenger needs as follows:

3 Reservation Class Waiting Rooms
2 General Waiting Rooms
1 AC SPECIAL Waiting Room
10 Reserved Computerised Ticket Counters
4 Un-Reserved Computerised Ticket Counters
1 Local Un-Computerised and Un-Reserved Ticket Counter
ATM Facility provided by State Bank of India
E-ticket Cafe
Internet Cafe
1 Food Plaza
4 Railway Restaurants
- Two in platform no.1
- One in platform no.2
- One in platform no.6
Coaching Centre of Railways
STD telephone booths
3 Emergency Exit Doors
Shop Cum. Complex
Toilets and Sanitation
Post Office
Railway Garden
Gumsel House
Rain Basera (Mini Waiting Rooms)
Emergency Lockers

Other Stations Serving Jabalpur Metropolitan Region

Major stations within city are Jabalpur Main, Madan mahal,Kachhpura, Bhitoni, Howbagh Jabalpur, Gwarighat Jabalpur, Gosalpur, Devri, Adhartal, Bargi and Bhedghat.

Station Name	Station Code	Railway Zone
Madan Mahal	MML	West Central Railway (India)
Bhedaghat	BRGT	West Central Railway (India)
Bhitoni	BHTN	West Central Railway (India)
Sihora	SHR	West Central Railway (India)
Howbagh	HBG	* South East Central Railway (India)
Adhartal	ADTL	West Central Railway (India)

WDM 3A with 12293 Duronto Express at Madan Mahal railway station

Annexe II Building

Jabalpur stationboard

Connectivity

The Jabalpur Junction is a broad gauge as well as narrow gauge station. It is connected with Katni to the north east, Itarsi to the south west and Gondia, Nainpur and Balaghat to the south by narrow gauge. The Narrow gauge also connects with Chhindwara and Nagpur. On 1st 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. It is also well connected with almost all the major cities of India such as

Jammu & Kashmir : Jammu Tawi, Vijaypur
Punjab : Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Jalandhar, Beas, Jind,Dhuri,Sirhind
Haryana : Ambala, Karnal
New Delhi
Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Jhansi, Agra, Faizabad, Gorakhpur, Varanasi
Bihar : Patna, Darbhanga, Bhagalpur, Gaya, Muzaffarpur
West Bengal : Kolkata (Howrah), Asansol
Tamil Nadu : Chennai, Coimbatore
Kerala : Trivandrum, Ernakulum
Maharashtra : Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Amrawati, Nasik, Manmad, Jalgoan
Gujarat : Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Anand, Nadiad, Valsad, Somnath
Rajasthan : Jaipur, Ajmer, Kota
Andhra Pradesh: Vijayawada, Tirupati, Kurnool
Telangana: Hyderabad, Warangal
Karnataka: Bangalore, Mysore
Assam: Guwahati
Chhattisgarh: Bilaspur, Raipur, Durg, Ambikapur
Goa: Vasco De Gama

Important Trains

(11449/11450) Durgavati Express between Jabalpur and Jammu Tawi (via. Katni - Bina - Jhansi - Gwalior - Agra - New Delhi - Patiala - Amritsar)
(12189/12190) Mahakoshal Express between Jabalpur and Hazrat Nizamuddin (via. Katni - Satna - Jhansi - Gwalior - Agra)
* ( 22181/22182) Gondwana Express between Jabalpur and Hazrat Nizamuddin (via. Katni - Bina - Jhansi - Gwalior - Agra)
(12121/12122) Madhya Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express between Jabalpur and Hazrat Nizamuddin
(12192/12191)Sridham Express between Jabalpur and New Delhi (via. Itarsi - Bhopal - Bina - Jhansi - Gwalior - Agra)
(12181/12182) Dayodaya Express between Jabalpur and Ajmer (via. Bina - Kota)
(15010/15009) Chitrakoot Express between Jabalpur and Lucknow (via. Satna - Banda)
(11447/11448) Shaktipunj Express between Jabalpur and Howrah (via. Singrauli)
(11463/64/65/66) Jabalpur Somnath Express between Jabalpur and Somnath
(12187/12188) Jabalpur - Mumbai Garibrath Express between Jabalpur Junction and Mumbai CST.(Tri-weekly).
(12160/12159) Jabalpur - Amravati Super Express between Jabalpur and Amravati (via. Itarsi - Nagpur)
(11472/11471) Jabalpur - Indore Express between Jabalpur and Indore (via. Itarsi Junction)
(11701/11702) Jabalpur - Indore Intercity Express between Jabalpur and Indore
(12062/12061) Habibganj Jan Shatabdi Express between Jabalpur and Bhopal Habibganj, Bhopal (via. Itarsi)
(12530/12529) Jabalpur - Habibganj Intercity Express between Jabalpur and Habibganj
(10002/10001) Satpura Express between Jabalpur and Balaghat
(11451/11452) Jabalpur - Rewa Intercity Express between Jabalpur and Rewa
(11265/11266) Ambikapur Intercity Express between Jabalpur and Ambikapur
(11651/11652) Singrauli- Jabalpur Inter-city Express (Daily) via New Katni.
(12791/12792) Secunderabad - Patna Express between Hyderabad and Patna Junction
(12295/12296) Sanghamithra Express between Bangalore and Patna Junction
(12669/12670) Ganga Kaveri Express between Chennai Central and Chhapra
(12577/12578) Bhagmati Express between Darbhanga and Mysore

Besides the Super and Express trains,Jabalpur also offer Passenger train services :

Jabalpur-Chhindwara
Jabalpur-Balaghat *(Satpura Express)
Jabalpur-Gondia
Nagpur Jabalpur Narrow Gauge Express
Jabalpur-Itarsi
Jabalpur-Rewa

Electrification

The Itarsi-Jabalpur-Cheoki , 603 KM long route , was approved for electrification in the previous Rail Budgets. ALD-KTE and STA-REWA route has already been electrified. It is estimated that Electrification will be completed very soon in Jabalpur periphery too. Although the project is expected to complete in 2017 , the zone has showed signs of commencing Electric locos on the KTE-STA route very soon.

External links

Jabalpur travel guide from Wikivoyage
* last edited by Dr. Bharat Birha, Nainpur, M.P. (India)

Top 100 booking stations of Indian Railways

Agra Cantonment Ahmedabad Junction Ajmer Junction Akola Junction Allahabad Junction Ambala Cantonment Amritsar Junction Asansol Junction Aurangabad Bangalore City Bareilly Bhagalpur Bhopal Junction Bhopal Habibganj Bhubaneswar Bhusaval Junction Bilaspur Junction Chandigarh Junction Chennai Central Coimbatore Junction Cuttack Damoh Junction Darbhanga Junction Dehradun Dhanbad Junction Durg Junction Ernakulam Junction Erode Junction Gaya Junction Ghaziabad Junction Gorakhpur Junction Guntur Junction Guwahati Junction Gwalior Junction Haridwar Junction Hatia Howrah Hubli Junction Indore Junction Jabalpur Junction Jaipur Junction Jalandhar City Jammu Tawi Jhansi Junction Jodhpur Junction Kanpur Central Katihar Junction Katni Junction Katpadi Junction Kharagpur Kollam Junction Kota Junction Kozhikode Lucknow Charbagh Ludhiana Junction Margao Madurai Junction Malda Town Mangalore Central Manmad Junction Mathura Junction Moradabad Mughalsarai Junction Mumbai Central Muzaffarpur Junction Mysore Junction Nagda Nagpur Nasik Road Nellore New Delhi New Jalpaiguri Palakkad Junction Patna Junction Pune Junction Puri Raipur Junction Rajahmundry Rajkot Junction Ranchi Junction Ratlam Junction Rourkela Salem Junction Satna Saugor Secunderabad Junction Solapur Surat Tatanagar Thiruvananthapuram Central Thrissur Tiruchirappalli Junction Tirunelveli Junction Tirupati Main Ujjain Junction Vadodara Junction Varanasi Junction Vijayawada Junction Visakhapatnam

Source: "100 Booking Stations of Indian Railways".

Railway stations in Madhya Pradesh

Bhusawal	Khandwa Junction

Nagpur CR	Ghoradongri Khirsadoh Junction

NCR

Jhansi	Gwalior Birlanagar Gwalior Junction Gwalior Sithouli Khajuraho

SECR

Nagpur SEC	Balaghat Junction Chhindwara

Ratlam	Bairagarh Dewas Junction Indore Junction Laxmibai Nagar Junction Lokmanya Nagar Patalpani Rajendra Nagar Saifi Nagar Ratlam Junction Maksi Junction Nagda Junction Ujjain Junction Vikramnagar

WCR

Bhopal	Bhadbhada Ghat Bhopal Junction Dewanganj Habibganj Hoshangabad Itarsi Junction Nishatpura

Jabalpur	Adhartal Bagra Tawa Gadarwara Jabalpur Junction Katni Junction Katni Murwara Junction Katni South Junction Khurai Madan Mahal Maihar Narsinghpur New Katni Junction Pipariya Satna Saugor Saugor Makronia

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