Jabalpur Junction railway station

The East Indian Railway, which had established the Howrah–Delhi main line via Allahabad, opened the Allahabad–Jabalpur branch line in June 1867. The Great Indian Peninsula Railway connection reached Jabalpur from Itarsi on 7 March 1870, linking up with the EIR track there from Allahabad, and establishing connectivity between Mumbai and Kolkata. Jabalpur railway division is one of the three railway divisions under West Central Railway zone of Indian Railways . This railway division was formed on 1 April 1952 and its headquarters are located at Jabalpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh of India. Bhopal railway division and Kota railway division are the other two railway divisions under WCR Zone headquartered at Jabalpur.[1][2]. The station is sometimes called the Jabalpur main station. Jabalpur serves as the headquarters of the West Central Railway zone and is one of the busiest railway stations in Madhya Pradesh. Jabalpur being the third largest city of Madhya Pradesh and with no suburban railway system caused the British to build 10 different railway stations across the city to manage the railway traffic and passengers across the city.

The Jabalpur station is one of the major stations in the Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line (via Bhusawal, Khandwa, Itarsi, Katni, Allahabad, Mughal Sarai, Dhanbad) and construction of Jabalpur–Gondia narrow gauge conversion to broad gauge is completed and electrification work is in progress between Lamta and Samnapur section which is expected to be completed by November 2020.[1]

The railway station of Jabalpur is located on broad-gauge line and comes under "A" category station and is in top 100 booking stations. It consists of 6 broad-gauge platforms . The station is also enhanced with escalators and lifts on the platform for better convenience. The station is all set to get modified with amenities like malls and hotels in station premise.

Annexe II Building

Jabalpur stationboard

Charghat Piparia Bargi

The Jabalpur Junction is a broad-gauge station. It is connected with Katni to the north east, Itarsi to the south west and Nainpur Junction to the south. On 1 October narrow-gauge line stop working as per order of railway ministry hence this rail route is converting as Jabalpur–Nagpur broad-gauge line. Out of the Jabalpur–Balaghat section, Jabalpur–Nainpur and Balaghat–Samnapur have already been converted to broad gauge. Within state, it is well connected to Bhopal, Ujjain, Gwalior Junction, Indore, Khandwa, Narsinghpur, Ratlam, Betul and Bina. In the 2011–2012 Railway Budget, a new line up to Sagar via Udaipura is proposed for survey. Recently station is blessed with new humsafar express which will connect Jabalpur to Santragachi (Kolkata).

The Itarsi–Jabalpur–Allahabad, 603 km long route, was approved for electrification in the Rail budget 2011 is now fully electrified and most of the trains running on this route is using electric loco . The section of Satna–Rewa and Satna–Katni got electrified as well.

• Madan Mahal railway station

• Jabalpur travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Jabalpur Junction railway station at the India Rail Info