Jodhpur–Bathinda line

Jodhpur–Bathinda line

Legend km to Rajpura on Ambala-Attari line 0 Bathinda on Delhi-Fazilka line to Sri Ganganagar to Bathinda-Rewari line 591 Gursar Shnewala 583 Sangat 575 Bagwali 571 Pathrala Punjab-Haryana border NH 10 565 Mani Dabwali Haryana- Punjab border 556 Birang Khera Punjab-Rajasthan border Indira Gandhi Canal 545 Dhaban 535 Sangaria 520 Manaksar 509 Hanumangarh to Sadulpur to Sri Ganganagar 496 Dabli Rathan 483 Pili Bangan 475 Amarpura Rathan 467 Rangmahal to Sri Sarupsar 458 Suratgarh 451 Pipran Suratgarh STPP 441 Biradhwal 427 Rajiyasar 412 Arjansar 395 Mahajan 378 Malkisar 368 Nathwala 356 Lunkaransar State Highway 6A 343 Dalmera 326 Baman Wali (Halt) NH 15 319 Jagdevwala 308 Jamsar 292 Kanasar to Jaisalmer 280 Lalgarh State Highway 15 276 Bikaner NH 89 to Ratangarh Jodhpur Bypass 262 Uramsar 253 Palana NH 89 244 Deshnoke 229 Surpura 212 Garhnokha 198 Chilo NH 89 195 Sri Balaji NH 89 183 Alai 174 Badwasi State Highway 19 160 Nagaur 143 Marwar Munwdwa State Highway 39 127 Khajwana 118 Deswal 110 Marwar Chapri to Jaipur Merta City 103 Merta Road 93 Jogi Magra 83 Gotan 76 Kharia Khangarh Birla White Cement 66 Umed 56 Sathin Road Bilara Luni River Pipar City State Highway 58 47 Pipar Road 40 Kheri Salwa State Highway 58 31 Asrananda 23 Jajiwal State Highway 63 14 Banar 8 Jodhpur Cantt. NH 112 to Jaisalmer 2 Rajkabagh Palace 0 Jodhpur to Marwar Junction-Munabao line with link to Jodhpur Source:Google maps 54704 Jodhpur-Bhatinda Passenger

The Jodhpur–Bathinda line connects Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan to Bathinda in the Punjab. During the British Raj, Bathinda was on the Delhi-Karachi line and after independence and partition of India in 1947, it is on the Delhi-Fazilka line. This line operates under the jurisdiction of North Western Railway.

History

A 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) wide metre gauge line from Marwar Junction to Pali was built for the Rajputana-Malwa Railway in 1882. It was extended to Luni in 1884 and Jodhpur in 1885. It formed the first Jodhpur Railway. It later became part of Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway.^[1][2]

In 1889, the two states of Jodhpur and Bikhaner formed the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway to promote railway development jointly within the Rajasthan Agency. In 1891 the metre gauge Jodhpur- Merta Road sector was opened on 8 April, the Merta Road - Nagaur sector on 16 October, and the Nagaur-Bikaner sector on 9 December. In 1901-02, the metre gauge line was extended to Bathinda. There it got connected with the metre gauge section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the broad gauge North Western Railway and the Southern Punjab Railway.^[1][2]

Gauge conversion

According to a Press Information Bureau release issued in 2008, the Jodhpur-Merta City- Bikaner-Bathinda line was broad gauge.^[3]

Passenger movement

Jodhpur is the only railway station on this line which is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.^[4]

Workshops

The former metre gauge workshop at Jodhpur now performs periodic overhauling of broad gauge passenger coaches. The Bikaner (Lalgarh) workshop carries out periodic overhauling metre gauge coaches and wagons.^[5]

Railway reorganisation

Jodhpur Railway had a beginning in 1882. Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway was formed in 1889.^[2] In 1924, the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway was split into its two constituent parts, with two new systems, the Jodhpur State Railway and Bikaner State Railway formed to work the lines.^[1]

In 1952, Northern Railway was formed with a portion of East Indian Railway Company, west of Mughalsarai, Bikaner Railway and Eastern Punjab Railway. Western Railway was formed with BBCI Rly, the Saurashtra, the Rajasthan, the Jaipur, and the Cutch Rlys.^[6] North Western Railway was formed on 1 October 2002, with two divisions each from Northern and Western Railways.^[7]

References

External links

• Trains at Jodhpur
• Trains at Bikaner
• Trains at Suratgarh
• Trains at Bhatinda

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