Wankaner Junction railway station
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Wankaner Junction railway station | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Wankaner, Morbi district, Gujarat India | ||||
| Coordinates | 22°37′20″N 70°57′48″E / 22.622148°N 70.963372°E | ||||
| Elevation | 87 m (285 ft) | ||||
| System |  Indian Railways station | ||||
| Operated by | Western Railway | ||||
| Lines | Viramgam–Okha line Maliya Miyana–Wankaner section | ||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||
| Tracks | 8 | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | Standard (on ground) | ||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Functioning | ||||
| Station code | WKR | ||||
| Zone(s) | Western Railway | ||||
| Division(s) | Rajkot | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1890 | ||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||
| Previous names | Morvi State Railway | ||||
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Wankaner Junction railway station is located in Wankaner city of Morbi district, Gujarat. It is under Rajkot division of Western Railway. Its code is WKR. It has four platforms. Passenger, DEMU, Express, and Superfast trains halt here.[1][2]
Wankaner Junction is well connected by rail to Veraval Junction, Okha, Porbandar, Hapa, Jamnagar, Rajkot Junction, Morbi, Gandhidham Junction, Ahmedabad Junction, Bilaspur Junction, Gorakhpur Junction, Rameswaram, Delhi Sarai Rohilla, Rewa, Secunderabad Junction, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, Thiruvananthapuram, Muzaffarpur Junction, Pune Junction, Jabalpur Junction, Indore Junction, Nathdwara, Kamakhya, Bandra Terminus and Mumbai Central.
The Morvi-Wankaner section was laid as a 2 ft 6inch road side tram way in the year 1890 by Morvi Railway under the regime of Sir Waghji Thakor. Wadhwan–ajkot metre-auge section of Morvi State Railway laid in the year 1890.[3] Rajkot–Wadhwan section was completed in the year 1905 by Morvi State Railway. Later Morvi–ankaner section was converted to metre gauge in 1924 to match rail lines of other state.[4]
