Wankaner Junction railway station is located in Wankaner city of Morbi district, Gujarat. It is under division of

Western Railway Western Railway may refer to: * Western Railway (Austria) * Hanoverian Western Railway, Germany * Western Railway zone, on Indian Railways * Württemberg Western Railway, Germany See also * Westbahn (disambiguation) * Western Railroad (disambigua ...

. Its code is WKR. It has four platforms. Passenger, DEMU, Express, and Superfast trains halt here. Wankaner Junction is well connected by rail to , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Nathdwara, , and .

History

The Morvi-Wankaner section was laid as a 2 ft 6inch road side tram way in the year 1890 by

Morvi Railway Morvi Railway (MR) was a line in the princely state of Morvi in Gujarat, India. History The Morvi Railway was built by the Morvi State. Construction started in 1886 and the line was opened to traffic in 1890 between Wadhwan and Wankaner as a ...

under the regime of Sir Waghji Thakor. Wadhwan–ajkot metre-auge section of Morvi State Railway laid in the year 1890. Rajkot–Wadhwan section was completed in the year 1905 by Morvi State Railway. Later Morvi–ankaner section was converted to mtre gauge in 1924 to match rail lines of other state.

Railway reorganization

Morvi State Railway was merged into the

on 5 November 1951. It was the last Steam engine hauled section in India in the year 2000. Before railbuses took over on Wankaner–Morvi, there were two-coach trains hauled by YG or YP steam locos (these were the last steam-hauled trains on those routes). Wankaner–Maliya Miyana section Conversion to

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 ...

was completed in the year 2001.

Trains

The following trains halt at Wankaner Junction railway station in both directions: * 22991/92 Bandra Terminus–Veraval Superfast Express * 22939/40 Hapa–Bilaspur Superfast Express * 22957/58 Somnath Superfast Express * 19215/16 Saurashtra Express * 15045/46 Gorakhpur–Okha Express * 19217/18 Bandra Terminus–Jamnagar Saurashtra Janta Express * 16733/34 Rameswaram–Okha Express * 19263/64 Porbandar–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express * 17017/18 Rajkot–Secunderabad Express * 22959/60 Surat–Jamnagar Intercity Express * 22961/62 Surat–Hapa Intercity Express * 12475/76 Hapa–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Sarvodaya Express * 12477/78 Jamnagar–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express * 22945/46 Saurashtra Mail * 16333/34 Thiruvananthapuram–Veraval Express * 19579/80 Rajkot–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Weekly Express * 22951/52 Bandra Terminus–Gandhidham Weekly Superfast Express * 19269/70 Porbandar–Muzaffarpur Express * 11087/88 Veraval–Pune Express * 11465/66 Somnath–Jabalpur Express (via Bina) * 11463/64 Somnath–Jabalpur Express (via Itarsi) * 19119/20 Ahmedabad–Somnath Intercity Express * 19319/20 Veraval–Indore Mahamana Express * 19575/76 Okha–Nathdwara Express * 22937/38

Rajkot–Rewa Superfast Express The 22937/22938 Rajkot–Rewa Superfast Express is a Superfast train belonging to Western Railway zone that runs between and in India. It is currently being operated with 22937/22938 train numbers on a weekly basis. Coach composition The t ...

* 15667/68 Kamakhya–Gandhidham Express * 22923/24 Bandra Terminus–Jamnagar Humsafar Express Wankaner–Morbi DEMU and Wankaner–Rajkot DEMU start from here.

References

Railway stations in India opened in 1890 Railway stations in Rajkot district Rajkot railway division Railway junction stations in Gujarat {{Gujarat-railstation-stub