Ajmer Junction railway station (station code: AII) is located in Ajmer district in the Indian state of

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

History

Initially it was built as a

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(MG) station with lines from

Chittaurgarh Junction railway station Chittaurgarh Junction railway station (station code: COR) is one of the major railway junctions in Southern Rajasthan, India. The railway station of Chittorgarh is located on a broad-gauge line and falls under the administrative control of Wes ...

Ahmedabad Junction railway station Ahmedabad Junction railway station (station code: ADI) is the main railway station of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is also the biggest railway station within Gujarat and also one of the major railway station in India. It is the highest income ...

Phulera Junction railway station ' Phulera Junction railway station is a main railway station in Jaipur district, Rajasthan. Its code is FL. It serves Phulera town. The station consists of 5 platforms. The station lies on Jaipur–Ahmedabad main line which connects Jaipur to ...

. In the 1990s, the

Delhi–Jaipur line The Delhi–Jaipur line connects Jaipur city with Delhi, the capital of India and is present of Ahmedabad–Delhi main line. There are about 22 trains connecting Delhi to Jaipur, fastest one, ADI – SJ Rajdhani taking 4 hours 25 minutes. and ...

and

Jaipur–Ahmedabad line The Jaipur–Ahmedabad line connects Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan to Ahmedabad, the largest city of Gujarat in India. It is present on Ahmedabad–Delhi main line. Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express is the fastest train in this route. History ...

were converted to

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(BG). Then the station had a parallel BG – MG lines coming from north from

, and after the station the MG line to Chittaurgarh crossed over to the Southeast side while the BG continued Southwest to

Beawar railway station Beawar railway station is a railway station in Beawar district of Rajasthan. Its code is BER. It serves Beawar city. The station consists of 3 platforms. Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here. Beawar is NSG-4 category station of ...

and

. Finally, somewhere in 2007, the line going toward

Ratlam Junction railway station Ratlam Junction railway station is a major rail junction on the New Delhi–Mumbai main line of Indian Railways. Ratlam is A – category railway station of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways. Its code is RTM. It serves Ratlam city. The st ...

to Chittaurgarh was converted to BG.

Location and layout

Ajmer Junction (station code: AII) is an important

railway junction A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes (assuming they are of the same gauge), provided by ''points'' ( ...

having five platforms and situated in the heart of the city. It is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – AII. Other Suburban Station of Ajmer are Khwaja Gareeb Nawaz Madar Junction (MDJN), Daurai (DOZ), and Adarsh Nagar (AHO). It has a railway complex, which includes a major workshop.

Branchings

It has four branchings of

broad-gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union (CIS ...

lines to Beawar in south-west, Chittorgarh Junction in South, Phulera Junction in North and in West.

References

External links

* Railway stations in Ajmer district Ajmer railway division Transport in Ajmer Buildings and structures in Ajmer Railway junction stations in Rajasthan {{Rajasthan-railstation-stub