Pathankot Cantonment railway station (station code: PTKC) is located in

Pathankot district Pathankot district, is the northernmost district of the Indian state of Punjab. Pathankot city is the district headquarters. The district was created on 27 July 2011. Etymology The original name of Pathankot was ''Paithan'' during the Mughal ...

in the Indian state of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

and serves

Pathankot Pathankot is a city and the district headquarters of the Pathankot district in Punjab, India. Pathankot is the 6th most populous city of Punjab, after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Bathinda. Its local government is a municipal cor ...

Name change

Chakki Bank railway station was renamed Pathankot Cantonment railway station in 2013.

The railway station

Pathankot Cantonment railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – PTKC.

History

The -long

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 ...

Amritsar–Pathankot line was opened in 1884. The -long -wide narrow-gauge

Kangra Valley Railway The Kangra Valley Railway is a gauge railway that runs from Pathankot, Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal Pradesh. It runs through the sub-Himalayan region of Kangra Valley and is long. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites tentative list ...

from

to Joginder Nagar was commissioned in 1929. The line from to 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 completed in 2015.

Loco shed

Pathankot Cantonment had a steam loco shed which has now been decommissioned.

References

External links

Trains at Chakki Bank
* {{Railway stations in the Punjab, India Railway stations in Pathankot district Firozpur railway division Transport in Pathankot