Kalaburagi Junction railway station, formerly Gulbarga Junction railway station (Station code: KLBG) is located in Kalaburagi district in the Indian state of

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

and serves Kalaburagi. It is identified as one of the A1 category Station in 2016. Gulbarga railway station

History

The

Great Indian Peninsula Railway The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway (and by extension, the current state-owned Indian Railways), whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai (later, the Victoria Terminu ...

extended its Mumbai–Solapur line to Raichur in 1871 and worked on that line from 1865. Construction of the Kalaburagi–Bidar 110 km link has got completed and inaugurated by Prime minister Narendra Modi on 29 October 2017. The railway track in the Daund–Wadi sector is being doubled at a cost of Rs. 700 crore.

Line and location

Indian Railways also has plans for extending the railway line from Kalaburagi to Latur via Aland, Umarga, Ausa to Latur which in turn will pave way for Gulbarga to have direct connectivity to Aurangabad, Latur, Nanded, Akola, Nagpur many other cities of Maharashtra which are located in neighbouring state of Maharashtra.

Electrification

, electrification work in the 641 km Pune–Wadi–Guntakal sector have been initiated. As of December 2017, the Wadi to Kalaburagi section has been completed and charged with 25 kV AC. The CRS inspection is pending scheduling, but after a successful inspection this section will be thrown open to electric trains.

Amenities

Kalaburagi railway station has a computerized reservation counter, public call office with subscribers’ trunk dialing facilities, waiting room, retiring rooms, vegetarian and non-vegetarian refreshment stalls, light refreshment stall, tea stall, book stall, escalators on platforms 1 and 2–3 and 2 general and platform ticket counters opposite railway station entrance for passenger convenience.

Station upgrades

Kalaburagi railway station is remodeled with the addition of a fourth platform, extension of the existing platforms and installation of two escalators. Addition of a dormitory and the addition of a new railway overbridge are yet to be completed. A new entrance facing the Tarafail area has also been constructed.

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Trains at Gulbarga
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