Ahmedabad Railway Station
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Ahmedabad Railway Station is the main railway station of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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[edit] The Station
The main railway station of Ahmedabad, also referred to as the Ahmedabad Junction Railway Station is the primary terminus of rail transport for the city of Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat, India and an important center of the Western Railways zone of the Indian Railways. Locally people call it as Kalupur Station (as it is situated in Kalupur area of the walled city) to distininguish it from other stations in the city like Gandhigram, Asarva, Sarkhej, Maninagar and Sabarmati Junction. It serves trains that connect Ahmedabad to different parts of Gujarat, as well as major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad. The station has twelve platforms. There are ample numbers of tea stalls, snack bars, medical shops, enquiry desk. The station also has one cybercafe which is run by the Tata telecom. The government is also considering making the station WiFi enabled. The station is undergoing large-scale automation to make it a technologically advanced station with new ATM outlet from Dena Bank has been installed. Rail tel is the cyber cafe of indian railways.
[edit] Destinations
One may find trains to the following destinations from the Ahmedabad Railway Station.
- Gujarat- Vadodara, Vasad, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Okha, Bhuj, Mehasana, Himatnagar, Anand, Nadiad, Amreli, Junagadh, Palanpur, Gandhidham, Bharuch...
- Maharastra- Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Nasik, Aurangabad, Satara/Sangli, Bhusaval
- Rajasthan- Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Udiapur, Jaisalmer, Abu Road, Falna, Kota, Bikaner,nana beda
- Karnataka- Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore, Hubli, Belgaum.
- Tamil Nadu- Chennai, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Coimbatore.
- Kerala- Trivandrum, Kochi, Ernakulam, Calicut
- Andhra Pradesh- Hyderabad, Vishakapatnam.
- Orissa- Bhubaneshwar, Puri.
- West Bengal- Kolkata
- Madhya Pradesh- Bhopal, Indore, Satna, Jabalpur
- Uttar Pradesh- Lucknow, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Agra, Gaziabad, Allahbad.
- Delhi
- Punjab- Amritsar, Chandigarh
- Jammu and Kashmir- Jammu
- Bihar- Patna, Ranchi
[edit] Trains
- Rajdhani Express
- Navjivan Express
- Gujarat Express
- Howrah Express
- Secunderabad Express
- Trivandrum Express
- Karnavati Express
- Ahimsa Express
- Sabarmati Express
- Jabalpur Rajot Express
- Jammu Tawi Express
- Puri-Okha Express
- Bhopal-Rajkot Express
- Coimbatore Express
- Cochin Rajkot Express
[edit] Trains For Mumbai
- Shatabdi Express
- Gujarat Express
- Saurashtra Express
- Saurashtra Janta Express
- Lokshakti Express
- Gujarat Mail
- Mumbai Passenger
- Karnavati Express
- Sayaji Nagari Express
- Viramgam Passenger
- Ahmedabad Passenger