Hazur Sahib Nanded railway station (station code: NED) is a railway station serving

Nanded Nanded is a city in Maharashtra state, India. It is the tenth largest city in the state and the seventy-ninth most populous city in India. It is the second largest city in Marathwada region. It is the district headquarters of Nanded distri ...

city in Nanded district of Maharashtra state of India. It is under the

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of Indian Railways. It is located on the

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of Indian Railways. It is classified as an A1–category station, in terms of earnings.This Station connects Nanded with other major maharashtrian and indian cities like

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. The station is located at 36 m above sea level and has four platforms. , 89 passenger trains halt each day at this station. In 2008, the station was named after

Hazur Sahib Hazur Sahib (; ), also known as Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib, is one of the five takhts in Sikhism. The gurdwara was built between 1832 and 1837 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839). It is located on the banks of the Godavar ...

, a takht of

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which is situated here.

History

The Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway was a gauge railway.

John Wallace Pringle Colonel Sir John Wallace Pringle, CB, FRGS (23 May 1863 – 16 July 1938) was a British engineer who was Chief Inspecting Officer of the Railways Inspectorate of the Ministry of Transport from 1916 to 1929. As such he was in charge of investigati ...

— who had recently completed surveying routes for the

Uganda railway The Uganda Railway was a metre-gauge railway system and former British state-owned railway company. The line linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya. After a series of mergers and splits, the li ...

— was appointed as the superintending engineer in 1900. The railway opened in 1900 with a line from Hyderabad city to Manmad Junction. Gauge 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 ( C ...

was completed between Manmad–Nanded/Mudhkhed in 1995. The patch between Mudkhed–Secunderabad remained metre-gauge till it was finally converted by 2003.

Trains Originating & Terminating at Hazur Sahib Nanded railway station

Amenities

Amenities at station include: lifts, escalators, computerized reservation office, waiting room, retiring room, vegetarian and non-vegetarian refreshments, and a book stall.There is a passenger coach care depot here as well as a railway hospital

Gallery

File:Nanded Railway Station.JPG, The name plate on Platform no. 4 File:Nanded Railway Station - panoramic view.jpg, Panoramic view

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