Gwalior Junction railway station

Gwalior Junction
Gwalior Junction
	PF1 end of Gwalior Junction Railway Station.
Location	Racecourse road, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; India
Coordinates	26°12′58″N 78°10′55″E / 26.21611°N 78.18194°E
Owned by	Indian Railways
Line(s)	Delhi–Chennai line; Agra–Bhopal section; Indore–Gwalior line; Gwalior–Sheopur line; Gwalior–Etawah line
Platforms	1, 2, 3, 4 (broad gauge),; 5 (narrow gauge); 2 broad gauge to be made
Tracks	6 broad gauge; 1 narrow gauge
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Station code	GWL
Fare zone	Jhansi Division, Northern Central Railway
Electrified	Yes
Location
	Gwalior Location within India Gwalior Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)

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Gwalior Junction railway station (station code: GWL) is the railway station of Gwalior City, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is operated by Indian Railways and is part of the Jhansi Division of the North-Central Railways.

DescriptionEdit

Gwalior Junction is one of the major commercial railway stations of the North Central Railway zone of Indian Railways, whose zonal headquarters are located in Allahabad. The station won awards from Indian Railways for clean infrastructure in 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1992.^[1] Express trains such as the Bhopal Express, Taj Express, Rajdhani Express, Garib Rath Express, Bhopal Shatabdi, and the Gatimaan Express—which was the fastest train in India until 2019^[2]—as well as 165 other trains, all stop at Gwalior Junction. Approximately 12 trains originate from Gwalior.

Gwalior Junction is one of the few places in India where both narrow-gauge and broad-gauge railway tracks are still operational. The Gwalior narrow-gauge track is the narrowest in India.^[3]

Gwalior Junction is well-connected to all parts of the country via train and metros. There are indirect trains to Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata (Howrah), Chennai, Ujjain, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam (Kochi), Indore, Ahmedabad, Jabalpur, Jammu, Lucknow, Bhopal, Bangalore, Jaipur, Udaipur, Dehradun, Jamshedpur, Sheopur, and other major towns.

RedevelopmentEdit

The Gwalior Junction railway station has been proposed to be redeveloped at a cost of approximately 240 crores under the station redevelopment program by the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Ltd (IRSDC).^[4] Entry, exit, and block areas have been proposed to be redeveloped being in contrast with the heritage building in an area of approximately 9,840 square metres (105,900 sq ft). It is one among the four new railway stations which had been finalized for redevelopment based on the public-private partnership (PPP) model.^[5]^[6] According to IRSDC, the in-principle approval for inviting the request for quotation (RFQ) for the redevelopment of the railway station based on the PPP model was granted by the Public-Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) on December 20, 2019. The proposed area of the redevelopment of the station is approximately 230,425 m² (2,480,270 sq ft) with a proposed cost of around 240 crores, and will highlight the unique heritage building.