Owned by Indian Railways Tracks 18 Elevation 217 m Owner Indian Railways | Operated by Northern Railway Structure type Standard on ground Phone 1800 11 1139 Platforms in use 6 | |
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Location Station Road, Guru Govind Singh Marg, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
India Line(s) Kanpur-Delhi section
Delhi-Meerut-Saharanpur line
Delhi-Moradabad line Address Bhur Bharat Nagar, Railway Colony, Madhopura, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201009 Similar New Delhi railway station, Kanpur Central railway st, Ambala Cantonment Junction r, Hazrat Nizamuddin railway st, Ludhiana Junction railway st | ||
Ghaziabad railway station india
Ghaziabad railway station is on the Kanpur-Delhi section of Howrah-Delhi main line, Howrah-Gaya-Delhi line And New Delhi-Moradabad-Lucknow line. It is located in Ghaziabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It serves Ghaziabad.
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History
Through trains started running on the East Indian Railway Company’s Howrah-Delhi line in 1866.
The railway line between Meerut and Delhi was constructed in 1864.
The Sind, Punjab and Delhi railway completed the 483-kilometre-long (300 mi) Amritsar–Ambala–Saharanpur–Ghaziabad line in 1870 connecting Multan (now in Pakistan) with Delhi.
The Ghaziabad-Moradabad link was established by Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway in 1900.
Electrification
The Tundla-Aligarh-Ghaziabad sector was electrified in 1975-76, and the Ghaziabad-Nizamuddin-New Delhi-Delhi sector in 1976-77,
The 140-kilometre long (87 mi) Ghaziabad-Moradabad line was completely electrified in January 2016. The Ghaziabad-Meerut-Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur-Roorkee-Haridwar line is also open to electric trains with effect from March 2016.
Local electric trains
Local electric trains are available regularly from Ghaziabad for stations in the National Capital Region. Distance: New Delhi railway station (26 km), Old Delhi railway station (20 km), Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station (23 km), Anand Vihar (13 km).
List of local trains
Local trains which run on a reguler interwell are EMUs, MEMUs, Passengers. Local trains start in the early morning and run till midnight.
Amenities
Amenities for passengers at Ghaziabad include: waiting rooms, water coolers, pure vegetarian restaurants, refreshment rooms, book stall, computerized reservation office, and telephone booths.
Loco shed
Ghaziabad electric loco shed serves the Delhi area. It houses and maintains India's fastest locomotives which are mostly used in Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto Expresses. It holds 47 WAP-1 locos as of 2008. It also has WAM-4, WAP-4, WAP-5, WAP-7 and WAG-5HA locos.