Status Operational Operator(s) Northern Railway Number of tracks 2 | Opened 1971 Track length 222 km (138 mi) Owner Indian Railways | |
Locale Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir Terminis Jammu Tawi railway station, Jalandhar City railway station | ||
The Jalandhar–Jammu line is a railway line connecting Jalandhar Cantonment / Jalandhar City in the Indian state of Punjab and Jammu Tawi in Jammu & Kashmir. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Railway.
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History
The line from Jalandhar City to Mukerian was constructed in 1915. The Mukerian-Pathankot line was built in 1952. The construction of the Pathankot-Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and opened in 1971.
Electrification
Railway tracks between Jalandhar and Jammu Tawi have been doubled. Electrification of railway track between Jalandhar and Jammu Tawi is completed in 2014.
Speed limit
The Ambala Cantonment-Ludhiana-Jalandhar cantonment-Jalandhar city is classified as a "Group B" line and can take speeds up to 130 km/ h.
Passenger movement
Jalandhar City and Jammu Tawi, on this line, are amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.
DMU shed
India’s first and largest DMU shed at Jalandhar holds 90 units placed in service in rural Punjab. It also houses two BEML built rail buses which operate on the Beas-Goindwal Sahib line.
Loco sheds
Jammu has a trip shed for visiting locos where WDS-4 locos belonging to Shakurbasti shed are retained for long periods. Pathankot Cantonment (Chakki Bank) had a steam shed which has now been decommissioned.
Railway reorganisation
Sind Railway (later reorganised as Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway) was formed a guaranteed railway in 1856. It constructed broad gauge railways from Delhi to Multan via Lahore, and from Karachi to Kotri. Multan and Kotri were connected by ferry service on the Indus River. In 1871-72, Indus Valley Railway was formed to connect Multan and Kotri. At the same time, Punjab Northern State Railway started constructing from Lahore towards Peshawar. In 1886, Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway was acquired by the state and amalgamated with Indus Valley Railway and Punjab Northern State Railway to form North-Western State Railway.
With the partition of India in 1947, North Western Railway was split. While the western portion became Pakistan West Railway, and later Pakistan Railways, the eastern part became Eastern Punjab Railway. In 1952, Northern Railway was formed with a portion of East Indian Railway Company west of Mughalsarai, Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway and Eastern Punjab Railway.