Kangra Valley Railway |
145001 Pathankot, India (Punjab) |
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Museum typ
Railway
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Reservation of seats is not enabled and therefore the tourists are required to occupy available seats on arrival. |
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Status from 08/2014
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We don't know the fees. |
| Contact | Unknown contact data for this museum - please help via contact form. |
| Homepage | indiarailinfo.com/departures/6337 |
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Pathankot is a municipal corporation in the Indian state of Punjab, and serves as the capital of the Pathankot district. Pathankotis well connected by rail and road with the rest of the country. It has direct train links with Delhi, Jammu and other Indian cities. All trains going to Jammu pass through Pathankot. The important trains include Jammu Tawi-Mumbai Express, Pooja Express from Jammu-Jaipur. Super fast trains do not enter city Pathankot. They stop at outer Railway Station called 'Chakki Bank'. The distance from main Railway station & Chakki Bank is just 4 km.Pathankot city is one of the rarest cities in North India, having 4 railway stations of its own, with Pathankot Junction railway station under A-category. Pathankot is a major railroad junction and the nearest mainline station to Dharamsala. Lines from Amritsar (2 hrs) and Delhi (8 hrs) merge here, and all services to Jammu (2 hrs) pass through. In addition to Pathankot station itself, there is a second station called Chakki Bank renamed Pathankot Cant [1] just 4 km away, which serves some express trains that do not stop in Pathankot station. Nowadays the majority of the Jammu trains stop only at Chakki Bank(a.k.a Pathankot Cant [2]) and not at Pathankot citi. JogindernagarThe narrow-gauge Kangra Valley Railway connects Jogindernagar to Pathankot and thereby to the rest of the Indian railway network. |
| Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Kangra Valley Railway lies in the sub-Himalayan region and covers a distance of 164 km (101.9 mi) from Pathankot, Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal Pradesh, India. The Kangra valley railway comes under the Firozpur division of Northern Railway. It is one of two mountain railways that run in Himachal Pradesh, the other being Kalka-Shimla Railway, which has been designated as world heritage site by UNESCO. Both of these currently run at a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge, although they do not connect to each other. The Kangra Valley Railway is among in the tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites. Indian Railways has identified Pathankot-Jogindernagar route to be converted into 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) and to extend it to Mandi, and eventually to Ladakh via a new Bilaspur-Mandi-Leh Railway. Kangra is a hilly region in Himachal Pradesh which has an average elevation of 733 m (2,405 ft, ServicesCurrently all the services are passenger trains i.e. the trains stop at all stations of II-class and some trains also have FC-class of accommodation. Some specials are run during the holiday season. Chartered trains can also be booked.0 Pathankot Junction 330 m 4 Dalhousie Road 13 Kandwal Halt 20 Nurpur Road 524 m 29 Talara 37 Bharmar 44 Jawan Wala Shehar 73 Guler 81 Tripal Halt 83 Jwalamukhi Road 598 m 90 Koparlahar 94 Kangra 98 Kangra Mandir 104 Samloti 109 Nagrota 127 Palampur 141 Baijnath Paprola 145 Baijnath Mandir 152 Ahju 157 Chauntra Bhater 164 Joginder Nagar |
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