Karimnagar railway station

Karimnagar Railway Station
Indian Railway Station
Location Saraswatinagar, Karimnagar, Telangana
India
Coordinates 18°27′32″N 79°08′32″E / 18.4590°N 79.1423°E / 18.4590; 79.1423Coordinates: 18°27′32″N 79°08′32″E / 18.4590°N 79.1423°E / 18.4590; 79.1423
Elevation 265 m (869 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Operated by South Central Railway zone.
Line(s) Peddapalli-Karimnagar-Nizamabad railway line
Platforms 2
Tracks 4
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code KRMR
Zone(s) South Central Railway zone
Division(s) Secunderabad
History
Opened 2001 (2001)
Location
Karimnagar railway station
Location in Telangana

Karimnagar railway station (station code:KRMR) is a railway station in Karimnagar District Headquarters. It serves the city of Karimnagar in Telangana State, India. It comes under Secunderabad division of South Central Railway, opened in the year of 2001.

Overview

It is a single broad gauge line located between Peddapalli-Nizamabad Railway section connected to the Grand Trunk Route(North&South main line, New Delhi-Chennai line) at Peddapalli(35 kilometres). Its neighbourhood station is Kottapalli railway station.There is a proposal of Kothapalli-Manoharabad new railway line.

History

Karimnagar railway station's construction started in 1994 on the sanction of Peddapalli-Nizamabad railway line by P.V.Narasimha Rao, 10th prime minister of India. Peddapalli-Karimnagar(35km) has been laid between 1994-2001. The train service has been operational from 2001. Karimnagar-Jagityal line is completed by 2007. Train service from Karimnagar Jagityal is started in the year 2007. Karimnagar Peddapalli DEMU service has started in the year of 2001, later extended up to Sirpur town. Karimnagar Tirupati weekly express is inaugurated in October 2012, it got a good response, frequency of a train is increased from weekly to biweekly in 2013.

Manoharabad(near secunderabad) to kothapalli(karimnagar) proposed railway line.

Originating and passing Trains

  • Tirupati - Karimnagar Superfast Express (12761) (Wed,Sat)
  • Karimnagar- Tirupati Superfast Express(12762) (Sun,Thu)
  • Karimnagar-Nizamabad DEMU (77260)(Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat)
  • Nizamabad - Karimnagar DEMU (77259)(Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat)
  • Karimnagar-Sirpur Town DEMU daily (77255)
  • Sirpur Town - Karimnagar DEMU daily (77256)
  • Jagityal-Peddapalli DEMU (77257) (Tue, Fri)
  • Peddapalli-Jagityal DEMU (77258) (Tue, Fri)
  • Kacheguda- Karimnagar Passenger Daily (57601)
  • Karimnagar- Kacheguda Passenger Daily (57602)
  • Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Mumbai - Karimnagar Superfast Express (11205) (Sat)
  • Karimnagar- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Mumbai Superfast Express (11206) (Sun)

See also

Peddapalli-Nizamabad section

References

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