Narkhed–Amravati Railway

Badnera–Narkhed section
Overview
Type	Branch line
System	Diesel operated
Status	Operational
Locale	Maharashtra
Termini	Narkhed Junction railway station Badnera railway station
Stations	Morshi, Warud, Chandurbazar
Operation
Opened	2012^[1]
Owner	Indian Railway
Operator(s)	Central Railway
Technical
Track length	138 km (86 mi)
No. of tracks	1 (single)
Track gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge
Operating speed	upto 100 kmph^[2]
Highest elevation	Narkhed 398 m (1,306 ft), Amravati 334 m (1,096 ft)

Introduction

The Narkhed–Amravati line is a railway connecting Narkhed town in Nagpur district and Amravati city, both in the Indian state of the Maharashtra. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Central Railway

Narkhed–Badnera section

Legend

114

Kuram

106

Takli

138

Narkhed / To Bhopal-Nagpur section

129

Mowad

Jam River

120

Pusala

SH 248

109

Warud Orange City

SH 244

100

Benoda

Hiwarkheda

Wardha River

Pala

SH 24A

Morshi

Astegaon

SH 24A

Kolihir

SH 241

Pendhi River

Chandur Bazar

Shirala

Walgaon

Pendhi River

SH 6

SH 200

New Amravati

Amravati

98 / 0

Badnera / Amravati Airport

NH 6

Timtala

Malkhed

Chandur

SH 243

Source:Google maps, Indore Yesvantpur Weely Express 19301 indiarailinfo

History

^[3] Narkhed and Amravati towns in Maharashtra's orange belt have waited for more than 80 years to be linked by rail. The 140-km track was first sanctioned in 1928 under the British, but stayed on the backburner. The project was revived only in 1993/94 and a budget of Rs 2.84 billion approved. The then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao laid the foundation stone. But protests by the Shiv Sena, which opposed the displacement of people, stalled the project for many more years. In September 2008, when President Pratibha Patil inaugurated the new Amravati model railway station, it seemed as if the project would be completed soon. Far from it. In November 2009, the Railway Ministry announced the link would be inaugurated in December 2010. But in January 2011, the deadline was pushed to October. Initially trains on this route will have to run on diesel locomotives as the link is yet to be electrified. Wonder how long that will take

Railway station

This Railway route has thirteen railway station excluding Narkhed, New Amravati and Badnera. Those are Narkhed, Mowad, Pusla, Warud, Benoda, Pala, Hiwarkhed, Morshi, Astegoan, Kolvihir, Chandur Bazar, Sirla, Walgaon, New Amravati and Badnera.

Other aspects

The area from which this railway route is passing is agricultural rich belt, famous for orange and cotton growing. The route directly connects many places of tourist interest, including:

Hanuman Temple of Belona.
Nal-Damyanti Sagar Dam Morshi
Muktagiri Jain Temple
Chikhaldara Hill Station
Melghat Tiger Reserve
Amba Devi Temple Amravati
Gurukunj Mozari

Optional route

This route is become very important because it provided the connectivity between two important railway route in India. The New Delhi–Chennai Grand trunk route and Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line both have heavy passenger as well as goods train traffic. In the case of the Narkhed–Amravati line, there is the option of diverting the train on this route to continue the rail traffic. Already two time this kind of situation faced by railway when the train had diverted on the route which shown the important of the route.

Due to continuous and heavy rains on 19 July 2013, the ballast under the railway track and bank including minor bridge had been washed out completely between Sindi and Tuljapur station on Nagpur – Wardha section.^[4]

12 bogies of the goods train derailed between Sonkhamb and Kohli railway stations on Narkhed–Nagpur section on 30 January 2014

^[5]

Hence we can say that this route provide optional route to both the heavy traffic route.

Electrification

The electrification has already started and will complete soon.

Train on route

^[6]

Sr.No.	Train No.	Name of train	Days	Narkhed Jn.	Warud	Morshi	ChandurBazar	New Amravati	Badnera Jn.
1.	19301	Indore–Yashwantpur Express	Mon	07:20	--	–	09:35	10:05	–
2.	51151	New Amravati–Narkhed Passenger	Daily	08:30	07:09	06:29	05:59	05:00	n/c
3.	51184	Narkhed–Bhusaval Passenger	Daily	09:00	09:35	10:17	12:00	14:50	13:30
4.	19713	Sec–Jaipur Express	Thu	11:58	–	--	10:30	09:45	09:30
5.	19714	Jaipur–Sec Express	Sun	15:50	--	–	17:40	18:20	18:40
6.	51183	Bhusaval–Narkhed Passenger	Daily	16:00	14:54	14:14	13:44	12:45	11:45
7.	19302	Yashwantpur–Indore Express	Wen	17:40	–	–	16:05	15:25	–
8.	51152	Narkhed–New Amravati Passenger	Daily	18:00	18:35	19:14	20:10	21:00	n/g

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See also	Indian Railways Bholu (mascot) Datia rail accident Akola–Ratlam (metre gauge trains) Indore–Ajmer metre-gauge trains Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh Dalli-Rajhara–Jagdalpur rail line

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