Abu Road railway station

Abu Road railway station is at an elevation of 262.430 metres (860.99 ft) and is assigned the code – ABR.[1]

Rajputana State Railway opened the Delhi–Bandikui 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)-wide metre-gauge line in 1874, extended it to Ajmer in 1875 and to Ahmedabad in 1881.[2] The Delhi–Ajmer metre-gauge line was converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)-wide broad gauge in 1994. The Ahmedabad–Ajmer sector was fully converted to broad gauge in 1997 – parts of it were converted earlier.[3]

• Ranakpur Express
• Suryanagri Express
• Dadar–Ajmer Superfast Express
• Mysore–Ajmer Express
• Bandra Terminus–Jodhpur Express
• Delhi Sarai Rohilla–Bandra Terminus Garib Rath Express
• Chandigarh–Bandra Terminus Superfast Express
• Bandra Terminus–Jammu Tawi Vivek Express
• Amrapur Aravali Express
• Bikaner–Dadar Superfast Express
• Gorakhpur Express
• Adi Gorakhpur Express via Ajmer/Jaipur
• Ahmedabad–Varanasi Weekly Express (via DLI, LKO & AJMER)
• Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express
• Ashram Express
• Haridwar Mail
• Jodhpur–Pune Express

The Diesel Loco Shed, Abu Road located here provides employment to a large number of people and holds an important place in town's economy. The Diesel Shed at Abu Road was commissioned by Indian Railways as a metre-gauge shed on 26 October 1966.[4] It was then the largest MG shed of Western Railway with holdings of 112 locomotives. With broad gauge conversion, the shed was converted to a BG shed with holdings of 60 locomotives. There are 68 supervisors and 570 workers in the shed.. It is only Diesel shed in Ajmer division and 2nd in North Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

A diesel training center is located at the shed that conducts promotional, refresher and special courses for locomotive running staff as well as formal training of shed maintenance staff.

It is currently houses 140+ diesel locomotives like WDM 3A, WDG 3A, WDG 4, WDP 4D & WDG 4D.

• Trains at Abu Road
• Mount Abu travel guide from Wikivoyage