Malkapur railway station (MKU) is in Malkapur, a town in the

Buldhana district Buldhana district (Marathi pronunciation: ulɖʰaːɳa is located in the Amravati division of Maharashtra, India. It is situated at the western border of Vidarbha region and is 500 km away from the state capital, Mumbai. The district ha ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

, India. There are many trains going through Malkapur railway station.

History

The first train in India travelled from Mumbai to Thane on 16 April 1853. By May 1854,

Great Indian Peninsula Railway The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway (and by extension, the current state-owned Indian Railways), whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai (later, the Victoria Terminu ...

's Bombay–Thane line was extended to Kalyan. Bhusawal railway station was set up in 1860 and in 1867 the GIPR branch line was extended to Nagpur.

Electrification

The railways in the section were electrified in 1989–90.

Amenities

Amenities at Malkapur railway station include: retiring room, waiting room, light refreshment stall, and book stall. Important trains passing from station is:- * Hazur Sahib Nanded–Jammu Tavi Hamsafar Express * Navajivan SF Express * Gitanjali Express * Amravati–Mumbai CSMT Superfast Express * Secunderabad–Hisar Express (via Surat, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur, Bikaner) * Hazur Sahib Nanded–Shri Ganganagar Weekly Express (via Jalgaon, Surat, Ahmedabad, Abu Road, Jodhpur, Bikaner) * Jaipur–Hyderabad SF Express * Hazur Sahib Nanded–Shri Ganganagar Superfast Express (via Abohar) * Howrah Mail * Vidarbha Express * Prerana Express * Hazur Sahib Nanded–Shri Ganganagar Superfast Express (via Hanumangarh) * Puri–Ahmedabad Express * Maharashtra Express * Ahmedabad–Howrah Superfast Express * Gandhidham–Puri Express * Malda Town–Surat Express * Gandhidham–Vishakhapatnam Weekly Express * Kolkata–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Kurla Express * Ajmer–Puri Express.

References

{{Railway stations in Maharashtra Railway stations in Buldhana district Bhusawal railway division Railway stations opened in 1867