Jalandhar Cantonment railway station


Jalandhar Cantonment railway station is located in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Jalandhar.

The railway station

Jalandhar Cantonment railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – JRC.

History

The Sind, Punjab and Delhi railway completed the long Amritsar-Jalandhar-Ambala-Saharanpur-Ghaziabad line in 1870 connecting Multan with Delhi.
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.
Hoshiarpur was linked by rail with Jullundur Cantonment in 1913.

Electrification

The Phagwara-Jalandhar City-Amritsar sector was electrified in 2003–04.

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.