Meerut City Junction railway station | ||||||||||||||||
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Meerut City Junction | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | City railway station road,Meerut,Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°58′43″N77°40′32″E / 28.9787°N 77.6755°E /28.9787; 77.6755 | |||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 224.340 metres (736.02 ft) | |||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Ministry of Railways (India) | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Indian Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Lines | Delhi–Meerut–Saharanpur line Meerut–Bulandshahar–Khurja line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 6 (1A, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 13 | |||||||||||||||
| Bus stands | City Bus (Local) Public Transit | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Available | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Functioning | |||||||||||||||
| Station code | MTC | |||||||||||||||
| Zone(s) | Northern Railway | |||||||||||||||
| Division(s) | Delhi | |||||||||||||||
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| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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Meerut City Junction railway station, is the main railway station in the city ofMeerut. It is a junction ofMeerut–Bulandshahr–Khurja line andDelhi–Meerut–Saharanpur line.
It lies on theNorthern Railway zone of India underDelhi division.[1]
This station was established by British India government in 1911. It lies on the Delhi to Haridwar/Dehradun line.
Meerut–Saharanpur section was doubled in 2018. Delhi to Sharanpur is a double electrified line.[2]
A total of 78 trains halt at Meerut City Jn railway station.[10] 8 trains originate from and terminate at Meerut City.[10]Sangam Express,Nauchandi Express, Rajya Rani Express, Vande Bharat Meerut-Lucknow-Varanasi are originating trains that go to Allahabad via Bulandshahr–Aligarh–Kanpur and Allahabad via Bareilly–Lucknow, and Bareilly–Lucknow respectively. Three Khruja–Meerut Passenger trains shuttle between Meerut and Khurja and 1 train Umbala Passenger andRewari Passenger also originate from Meerut City. About 60 trains run up and down to Delhi, Mumbai, Madurai, Kochuvelli,Dehradun, Amritsar, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Bilaspur, Puri, Indore, Ujjain daily, biweekly or weekly.
Dehradun–Anand Vihar Terminal Vande Bharat Express also stops at the Meerut City Junction.
After Meerut City, the second major railway station isMeerut Cantonment, located 4 km North.
The station is equipped withroute relay interlocking technology for managing tracks and signalling. The rail yard has 2 washing lines for maintenance or train rakes. It has also got a coach care facility with capacity of 2 coaches.
Station also has a dedicated cargosiding for freight loading and unloading. The siding has 3 zones: open siding for coal, cement, fertilizer etc., a petroleum terminal bay ofBPCL and, a closed siding terminal for all other type of goods. The siding is located about 1.9 km east of the station.[11]
City railway station is a Class-A railway station of Northern Railway. It is equipped with most public amenities like restaurants, waiting room, retiring room, police station, post office etc. The station is fully disabled friendly.Escalators andelevators are being installed for easing passenger movement between platform 1 and 2–3.[12]PNB andSBIATMs are also available at station entrance.
Station premises also have a Railway Hospital for railway staff.