Status Operational Line length 129 km (80 mi) Owner Indian Railways | Opened 1879 Number of tracks 1 (single) Operator East Central Railway zone | |
Track gauge Broad Gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Terminis Kiul Junction railway station, Gaya Junction railway station | ||
The Gaya–Kiul line is a railway line connecting Gaya on the Howrah-Gaya-Delhi line and Kiul on the Howrah-Delhi main line both in the Indian state of Bihar.
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History
Several years before the Grand Chord was built, a connection from the Howrah-Delhi main line to Gaya was developed in 1900 and the South Bihar Railway Company (operated by EIR) had laid a line from Lakhisarai to Gaya in 1879. The Grand Chord was opened on 6 December 1906.
Track
Track doubling of the 130 kilometres (81 mi) long Gaya-Kiul line was announced in the Railway Budget for 2010-2011.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for doubling of Kiul-Gaya Railway line of 124 km with a completion cost of Rs.1354.22 crore. Doubling of this line will greatly ease the ever increasing freight traffic between these sections. The project is likely to be completed by 2019-20.
Electrification
Feasibility studies for the electrification of the Manpur-Tilaiya-Kiul sector were announced in the rail budget for 2010-11 and the electrification work of single track is going on starting 2015-16.
Passenger movement
Gaya is the only station on this line which is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.Apart from Gaya there are various local stations used by masses such as Nawada,Sheikhpura,Warisaliganj.
Railway reorganisation
In 1952, Eastern Railway, Northern Railway and North Eastern Railway were formed. Eastern Railway was formed with a portion of East Indian Railway Company, east of Mughalsarai and Bengal Nagpur Railway. Northern Railway was formed with a portion of East Indian Railway Company west of Mughalsarai, Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway and Eastern Punjab Railway. North Eastern Railway was formed with Oudh and Tirhut Railway, Assam Railway and a portion of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. East Central Railway was created in 1996-97.