Mukerian railway station is located in
Hoshiarpur district in the Indian state of
Punjab and serves
Mukerian .
The railway station
Mukerian railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – MEX.
History
The line from
Jalandhar City to
Mukerian city was constructed in 1915. The
Mukerian–
Pathankot line was built in 1952. The construction of the Pathankot–Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or the Second Kashmir War was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was d ...
, and opened in 1971.
Electrification
Electrification work of the
Jalandhar–Jammu line
The Jalandhar–Jammu line is a railway line connecting and in the Indian state of Punjab with in Jammu and Kashmir. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Railway. This line was made after Indian Independence in 1947 ...
is on. As of 2010–11 around 100 km had been electrified. As of 2013, electrification was expected to be completed in about a year.
References
External links
Trains at Mukerian
Railway stations in Hoshiarpur district
Firozpur railway division
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