Indore Junction
Indore Junction
Indian Railway Station |
The Main Entrance of the Station |
| Station statistics |
| Address |
Siyaganj, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Connections |
Taxi Stand, Auto Stand |
| Platforms |
3 |
| Tracks |
5 |
| Parking |
Available |
| Baggage check |
Not Available |
| Other information |
| Opened |
1921 |
| Code |
INDB |
| Owned by |
Indian Railways |
| Fare zone |
Western Railway |
| Services |
| Waiting Room, Dormitory/Retiring Rooms, Baggage Room, Refreshment, ATM
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Indore Junction BG (Hindi: इंदौर जंक्शन बी जी) (Station Code : INDB), is the main railway junction station of largest city Indore City in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Structure and Location
The railway station of Indore Junction BG is located on Broad Gauge line. It consists of 3 main railway platforms. It is well sheltered and furnished meeting up the passengers all the needs as follows:
- 3 Reservation Class Waiting Rooms
- 2 General Waiting Rooms
- 1 AC SPECIAL Waiting Room
- 1 Reserved Computerised Ticket Counter
- 4 Un-Reserved Computerised Ticket Counters
- 1 Local manual and Un-Reserved Ticket Counter
- ATM Facility provided by State Bank of Indore
- E-ticket Cafe
- Internet Cafe
- 3 Food Plaza
- 6 Railway Restaurants
- Two in platform no.1 (MG).
- One in platform no.2 (MG),
- One in platform no.3 (BG),
- One in platform no.4 (BG),
- One in platform no.5 (BG).
- Coaching Centre of Railways
- STD telephone booths
- 3 Emergency Exit Doors
- Shop Cum. Complex
- Toilets and Sanitation
- Post Office
- Shopping Complex
- Railway Garden
- Gumsel House
- Rain Basera (Mini Waiting Rooms)
- Emergency Lockers
The Station is located 1 km away from the city centre.It is an ISO CERTIFIED STATION OF INDIA.
Connectivity
The Indore Junction BG is a broad gauge station so is the name. Its route is connected with Ujjain Junction to the north west, Indore Mhow to the south, Dewas Junction to the north and Khandwa Junction to the south east. Within state, it is well connected to Bhopal, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Katni, Khandwa, Ratlam and Bina. It is also well connected with some of the major cities of India such as
- Jammu & Kashmir : Jammu Tawi, Vijaypur
- Punjab : Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Jalandhar, Beas, Jind, Sirhind
- Haryana : Ambala, Karnal
- New Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Jhansi, Agra, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Faizabad, Saharanpur
- Bihar : Patna
- Jharkhand : Dhanbad
- West Bengal : Kolkata (Howrah), Asansol
- Tamil Nadu : Chennai, Coimbatore
- Kerala : Trivandrum, Ernakulum, Palakkad
- Maharashtra : Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Vapi, Karjat, Lonavala
- Gujarat : Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Anand, Nadiad
- Rajasthan : Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Ajmer
- Uttarakhand : Dehradun, Haridwar
- Andhra Pradesh : Warangal, Vijaywada
Indore still lacks direct trains for the states of
There are always talks by the rail authorities to launch the direct services to these states but are never approved in the rail budget.
Important Trains
The following trains run from Indore Jn. BG :
Super Fast Trains
Mail/Express Trains
- 11125/11126 Indore - Gwalior Intercity Express (Daily)
- 11125A/11126A Indore - Bhind Express (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday / Monday, Thursday, Saturday)
- 11471/11472 Indore - Jabalpur Express (Daily)
- 14317/14318 Indore - Dehradun Express (Sunday, Saturday/Sunday, Saturday)
- 16325/16326 Ahilyanagari Express between Indore and Trivandrum (Monday/Monday)
- 19309/19310 Shanti Express between Indore and Gandhinagar (Daily)
- 19311/19312 Indore - Pune Express (Monday, Thursday, Friday/Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)
- 19313/19314 Indore - Patna Express (Wednesday/Saturday)
- 19323/19324 Indore - Bhopal Intercity Express (Daily)
Express Trains
Express/Passenger Trains
Fast Passenger Trains
Passenger Trains
- 52967/52968 Indore - Mhow Passenger
- 59379/59380 Indore - Maksi Passenger
Special Trains
- 12973A/12974A Indore - Jaipur Holiday Special Super Fast Express
- 19655B/19656B Indore - Ajmer Holiday Special
- 19391A/19392A Indore - Bandra Express
- 19393/19394 Indore - Surat Express
New trains waiting to be flagged off
- Indore - Jabalpur Intercity Express (Tri Weekly)
- Indore - Kota Intercity Express (Daily)
- Indore - Jaipur Express Via. Ajmer
Suburban Trains
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Demands
The railway station of Indore is always "un-touched" in every railway budget. Despite of heavy passenger traffic, there are no actions on demands of the people such as starting new services:
- Indore-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (via. Nagda, Kota) 4 days a Week (Indore Rajdhani)
- Indore-Chandigarh/Kalka Express Bi-Weekly (via. Bhopal)
- Indore-Lucknow Daily Super Fast Express (via. Maksi-Guna)
- Indore-Gorakhpur Bi-Weekly Express (via. Bhopal-Kanpur)
- Indore-Howrah BI Weekly AC cum Non AC Duronto (via. Bhopal, Khandwa, Bhusawal)
- Indore-Bikaner Bi-Weekly Express
- Indore-Kolhapur (via. Vasai Road, Kalyan) Tri Weekly Express
- Indore-Madgaon Express Tri-Weekly (via. Ratlam)
- Indore-Bangalore SuperFast Tri weekly Express(via. Ratlam)
- Indore-Mysore SuperFast Express (via. Ratlam-Surat) Weekly
- Indore-Tirunelveli Super Fast Express Weekly
- Indore-Trivendrum SuperFast (via. Ratlam) Weekly
- Indore-Chennai Superfast Express (Via. Bhopal)
- Indore-Tirupati SuperFast Weekly
- Indore-Secunderabad Superfast Express (Via. Bhopal) (Daily)
- Indore-Puri SuperFast (Via. UJN, BHOPAL, GWL) -- Bi Weekly
- Indore-Guwahati Supefast Express (Via. UJN, BHOPAL, GWL) -- Bi Weekly
- Indore-Bhopal-Lucknow --- Indore Mail / Lucknow Mail
- Indore-Bhopal Jan Shatabdi Express
- Indore-Rewa Express Daily (via. Bhopal - Bina - Katni)
- Indore-Ambikapur Tri-Weekly Express (via. Bhopal - Nagpur - Raipur - Bilaspur)
- Indore-Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express
- Indore-Hazrat Nizamuddin Tri-Weekly Garib Rath Express
- Indore-Varanasi Express Via Jabalpur Tri Weekly
- Indore-Bandra Terminus Superfast Express (Tri Weekly) <<< Should run as a backup for avantika and should have more concentration on SL coaches) ---- Madhya Pradesh Mail
- Indore-Habibganj Antim Superfast Express -- leaving indore @ 23:55, reaching HBJ @ 04:30 (Via. Dewas, Maksi, Bairagh, Bhopal Jn. only)
While few trains needs extension and Change in frequency such as:
- Indore-Amritsar Express should run Tri-Weekly (via. Guna) and Tri-Weekly (via. Bhopal - Jhansi)
- Ujjain-Indore-Dehradun Ujjaini Express should be extended to Indore as a Superfast train and run Daily instead of Bi -Weekly as Indore-Dehradun Express and Bi-Weekly as Ujjain-Dehradun Express.
- Indore-Jaipur Express should run Daily.
- Indore-Pune Express should be termed as Superfast and also run Four Days a week & Should have a rake sharing with indore-bandra tri weekly superfast express
- Indore-Howrah Shipra Express should run with a pantry car and additional coaches.
- Indore-Gandhinagar Shanti Express should be converetd to Superfast and also should be extended till Veraval and Bhuj on alternate days and 5 More Sleeper Coaches and 1-3A and 1-2A should be increased
- Indore-Nagpur Tri Shatabi should run daily and alternate days should run via. Ujjain and Maksi
Other stations in Indore
The city of Indore has 10 other railway stations which are:
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See also
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