Rajkot Railway Station
Rajkot Railway Station, also known as Rajkot Junction, 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.
The station is situated on the Ahmedabad-Hepa broad gauge line. It is linked to the Viramgam-Okha rail route by a meter gauge line. To the west, the major railhead is at Jamnagar, 88 kilometres (55 mi) away.
Facilities
The station has enquiry counters, reservation halls, tea stalls, ice-cream stalls, and cold drinking water facilities. It has one ATM which is run by the State Bank of Saurashtra. An electronic reservation system is available.
The station is undergoing large-scale automation and infrastructure development, including the provision of a cybercafe, additional ATMs, vending machines, a cafeteria, and waiting rooms.
A doubling Of the Rajkot-Viramgam route is in progress, which is expected to increase the number of daily trains and traffic. The route is also expected to be electrified in the near future.
Destinations
Trains from the station serve the following destinations:
- Gujarat: Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Okha, Bhuj, Mehasana, Himatnagar, Anand, Nadiad, Amreli, Junagadh, Palanpur, Gandhidham, Veraval
- Maharastra: Mumbai (Central), Mumbai (Bandra), Pune, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Nasik, Aurangabad, Satara/Sangli, Bhusaval
- Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Satna, Saugor, Ashoknagar, Katni, Damoh, Itarsi, Narsinghpur, Dewas, Nagda, Ratlam, Mekashabad
- Rajasthan: Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Udiapur, Jaisalmer, Abu Road, Falna, Kota, Bikaner, Nana Beda
- Karnataka: Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore, Hubli, Belgaum
- Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Nagercoil, Rameshwaram
- Kerala: Trivandrum, Kochi, Ernakulam, Calicut
- Andhra Pradesh: Hyderabad, Vishakapatnam
- Orissa: Bhubaneshwar, Puri
- West Bengal: Kolkata
- Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Agra, Gaziabad, Allahbad
- Delhi
- Punjab: Amritsar, Chandigarh
- Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu
- Bihar: Patna, Ranchi
Trains
- Rajkot - Jabalpur Express (1463/1464 AND 1465/1466)
- Rajkot Secunderabad Express (7017/7018)
- Saurashtra Mail (9005/9006)
- Saurashtra Janata Express (9017/9018)
- Saurashtra Express (9215/9216)
- Somnath Express (9221/9222)
- Somnath - Jabalpur Express (1465/1466)
- Porbandar - Howarh Express (2905/2906)
- Puri - Okha Express (8401/8402)
- Okha - Guwahati Express (5635/5636)
- Okha - Varanasi Express (9569/9570)
- Okha Gorakhpur Express (5045-5046)
- Uttaranchal Express (9265-9266)
- Okha Eranakulam Express (6337-6338)
- Veraval Trivandrum Express (6333-6334)
- Rajkot Coimbatore Express (6613-6614)
- Jamnagar JammuTawi Express (2477–2478)
- Hapa JammuTawi Express (2475–2476)
- Porbandar Delhi Express (9263-9264)
- Veraval Pune Express (1087–1088)
- Tirunelveli Hapa Super Fast (2997/2998)
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