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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Pathankot Junction
| type = [[Light rail]] & [[Commuter rail]] station
| style = Indian Railways
| image =
| image_caption =
| address = [[Pathankot]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]
| country = {{flagu|India}}
| coordinates = {{Coord|32.2716|N|75.6438|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN|format=dms|display=inline, title}}
| elevation = {{convert|331|m|ft}}
| line = [[Jalandhar–Jammu line]]<br/>[[Kangra Valley Railway]]<br/>[[Amritsar–Pathankot line]]
| structure = Standard on ground
| platform = 4 (3 broad gauge + 1 narrow gauge )
| tracks = {{Track gauge|5ft6in|lk=on}} [[broad gauge]]
| parking = Yes
| bicycle = No
| opened = {{start date and age|1884}}
| closed =
| rebuilt =
| electrified = Yes
| ADA = {{Access icon|20px}} Available
| code = {{Indian railway code
| code = PTK
| zone = [[Northern Railway zone]]
| division = {{rwd|Firozpur}}
}}
| owned = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Northern Railway zone|Northern Railways]]
| status = Functioning
| former =
| passengers =
| pass_year =
| pass_percent =
| pass_system =
| map_dot_label = Pathankot Junction railway station
| map_type = India Punjab
| map_size = 300
| map_caption = Location in Punjab
}}
{{Railways around Pathankot|collapse=y}}

'''Pathankot Junction railway station''' (station code: '''PTK''') is a located in [[Pathankot district]] in the Indian state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] and serves [[Pathankot]] .

==The railway station==
Pathankot railway station is at an elevation of {{convert|331|m|ft}} and was assigned the code – PTK.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://indiarailinfo.com/departures/pathankot-junction-ptk/92|title= Pathankot Junction railway station|publisher=indiarailinfo.com | access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref>

Here is a short description of the station by Ian Manning: "[[Pathankot]], being the railhead for Kashmir and several other places (a branch has been inching into Kashmir for sometime, but so far it hasn’t made much difference) is a dusty trucking and military town, booming and rough. Its station grew by accumulation in length rather than in breadth, with some rather confused [[bay platform]]s at the Amritsar end. The contrasting tidy bay and loop at the far end were the passenger terminus of the Kangra Valley Railway, a {{track gauge|2ft6in}} line which penetrated into the foothills of the Himalayas.".<ref>{{cite web|url= http://irfca.org/articles/manning/asr.html |title= The North-west – Amritsar; Kangra Valley |publisher= IRFCA| access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref>

==History==
The {{convert|107|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}-long {{Track gauge|5ft6in|lk=on}} [[broad gauge]] Amritsar–Pathankot line was opened in 1884.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/gaz_gdr16.htm | title= Chapter VII | publisher= | access-date= 10 February 2014 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090410022057/http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/gaz_gdr16.htm | archive-date= 10 April 2009 | url-status= dead }}</ref>

The {{convert|164|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}-long {{track gauge|762mm}}-wide [[narrow-gauge]] [[Kangra Valley Railway]] from [[Pathankot]] to Joginder Nagar was commissioned in 1929.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5401| title= The Kangra Valley Railway | publisher= UNESCO| access-date = 9 February 2014 }}</ref>

The line from Jalandhar City to Mukerian was constructed in 1915.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/gaz_hsp10.htm#ch7c | title= Hoshiarpur – Punjab District Gazetteers | work= Chapter VII Communications – Railways | publisher= | access-date= 9 February 2014 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105330/http://punjabrevenue.nic.in/gaz_hsp10.htm#ch7c | archive-date= 4 March 2016 | url-status= dead }}</ref> The Mukerian–Pathankot line was built in 1952,<ref name=timeline>{{cite web|last=R. P. Saxena|title=Indian Railway History Timeline|url=http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm|work=Irse.bravehost.com|access-date=10 February 2014|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120714085533/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm|archivedate=14 July 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The construction of the Pathankot–Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]], and opened in 1971.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history5.html | title=IR History: Part V (1970–1995) |publisher= IRFCA | access-date = 9 February 2014 }}</ref>

==Electrification==
Electrification work of the [[Jalandhar–Jammu line]] is completed as of May 2015 and now functioning.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://indiarailinfo.com/departures/pathankot-junction-ptk/92 Trains at Pathankot Junction]
*{{Wikivoyage-inline|Pathankot}}

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{{s-rail|title=Indian Railways}}
{{s-line|system=Indian Railways |previous= Pathankot Cantonment| next= Bharoli |line= Northern Railway zone|branch= [[Jalandhar–Jammu line]] |rows1=1}}
{{s-line|system=Indian Railways |previous= | next= Bharoli |line= Northern Railway zone|branch= [[Amritsar–Pathankot line]] |rows1=1}}
{{s-line|system=Indian Railways |previous= | next= Jawalamukhi Road |line= Northern Railway zone|branch= [[Kangra Valley Railway]] |rows1=1}}
{{end}}

{{Railway stations in the Punjab, India}}

[[Category:Railway stations in Pathankot district]]
[[Category:Firozpur railway division]]
[[Category:Railway stations in India opened in 1884]]
[[Category:Transport in Pathankot]]

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