Katni Junction railway station

Katni Junction
कटनी जंक्शन
Indian Railway Junction Station
Katni Station
Location Katni-483501, Madhya Pradesh
 India
Coordinates 23°50′00″N 80°24′04″E / 23.8334°N 80.4011°E / 23.8334; 80.4011Coordinates: 23°50′00″N 80°24′04″E / 23.8334°N 80.4011°E / 23.8334; 80.4011
Elevation 381.25 metres (1,250.8 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Line(s) Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line
Allahabad-Jabalpur section
Bina-Katni rail route
Katni-Billibari link
Katni-Bilaspur line
Platforms 6
Tracks 8
Construction
Structure type Grounded
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code KTE
Zone(s) West Central Railways
Division(s) Jabalpur railway division
Location
Katni Railway Station
Location in Madhya Pradesh

Katni Junction (Station Code: KTE)[1] is a major rail junction in Katni, India. Rail links from the junction travel in five directions — Bina, Jabalpur, Satna, Bilaspur, Singrauli. Rail links from the junction travel to New Delhi, Mumbai, Vadodara, Howrah, Chennai, Bangalore, allahabad, Kanpur, Lucknow,bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Agra, Gorakhpur, Patna, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Ambala, Bhatinda, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Nagpur, Pune , Jammu, Raipur, Vishakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Hubli, Madurai, Vasco, rameshvaram, Kanyakumari, Ernakulam and other Indian cities. Approximately 342 passenger trains and more than 300 goods train passes the junction every day. Katni is the busiest railway junction in Madhya Pradesh.

To reduce the junction's load the new Katni Murwara Junction & Katni South has been opened to carry trains from Bina and Jabalpur respectively.

Junction

Railway lines from five directions connect at the Katni Railway Station:

  1. From the east (Renukut, Mugal Sarai, Howrah, Kolkata)
    1. Katni-Singrauli-Howrah Line via Singrauli that goes to West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand
    2. Katni-Bilaspur Line that goes further to Chhattisgarh, Odisha
  2. From the north (Delhi, Kanpur)
    1. Katni-Allahabad Line that goes to Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh
  3. From the west (Mumbai, Ahmedabad)
    1. Katni-Itarsi Line that goes west, south, southwest
    2. Katni-Bina Line that goes to Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

Important trains passing from junction-

1.Madhya Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express

2.Chhattisgarh Sampark Kranti Superfast Express

3. Durg - Hazrat Nizamuddin Humsafar Express

4.Bandra Patna Humsafar express

5.Mahamana Express

6.Mahanagari Express

7.Kalinga Utkal Express

8.Shalimar Bhuj express

9.Kamayani Express

10.Shipra Express

See also

  1. Katni Murwara Junction
  2. New Katni Junction
  3. Katni South Junction

References

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