Bikaner railway station is located in
Bikaner 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 ...
. It serves
Bikaner
Bikaner () is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. Bikaner city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division.
Formerly the capital of ...
. Bikaner is headquarters of Bikaner railway division.
The railway station
Bikaner railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – BKN.
Bikaner is served by more than 21 pairs of trains each day with multiple daily connections to Delhi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Mumbai and Chandigarh. Within Rajasthan, there are also multiple daily trains available for Jodhpur, Jaipur, Nagaur, Ratangarh, Churu, Barmer, and Jaisalamer. There are also daily trains to Kota.
Daily connections to Pathankot, Amritsar, Jammu, Kalka, Haridwar, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Durgapur, Kolkata, Guwahati and Dibrugarh are also available.
Most other major Indian cities such as Ujjain, Pune, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Kochi, Trivandrum, Goa, Puri, Bubaneswar, Sambalpur, Raipur, Bilaspur and Bhopal are connected via weekly, biweekly or tri-weekly trains.
History
Bikaner railway station was constructed in 1891 with a Rs. 3,46,000 donation by Rai Bahadur Dewan Bahadur Sir Kasturchand Daga, a known trader from the city.
In 1889, the two states of Jodhpur and Bikaner formed the Jodhpur–Bikaner Railway to promote railway development jointly within the
Rajputana Agency
The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana (now in Rajasthan, northwestern India), under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor ...
. In 1891 the -wide
metre-gauge
Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.
The metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by European colonial powers, such as the French, British and German Empires. In Europe, la ...
Jodhpur–Bikaner line was opened. In 1901–02, the metre-gauge line was extended to Bathinda.
Gauge conversions
The Jodhpur–Bikaner track, along with the link to Phulera, had been taken in/before 1991 for 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 ...
. According to a Press Information Bureau release issued in 2008, the Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line was broad gauge.
The Bikaner–Rewari line was converted to broad gauge during the period 2008–2011.
Workshop
The Bikaner (Lalgarh) workshop was set up in 1926. It carries out periodic overhauling of metre gauge coaches and wagons.
Museum
Bikaner Heritage Rail Museum at Bikaner displays items related to the Jodhpur and Bikaner Railway era. It was opened in 2012. Turban Museum in platform one open on 2021. Displays longest turban and smallest turban in world made by a Bikaner artist Pawan vyas.
https://www.patrika.com/bikaner-news/rajasthani-turban-will-become-the-center-of-attraction-for-travelers-6721735/]
References
https://www.patrika.com/bikaner-news/rajasthani-turban-will-become-the-center-of-attraction-for-travelers-6721735/
External links
Trains at Bikaner
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Railway stations in Bikaner district
Bikaner railway division
Transport in Bikaner
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