Guntakal Junction railway station is located in Anantapur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and serves Guntakal. It is a junction station at the intersection point of the Mumbai-Chennai line, the Vijayawada-Margao line and the Guntakal-Bengaluru line.
During the period 1861-1871 Madras Railway extended its Chennai-Arakonnam line to Raichur to join the Great Indian Peninsula Railway line, thereby linking Mumbai and Chennai with a 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) wide broad gauge line in 1871.
During 1888 to 1890 Southern Mahratta Railway developed a metre gauge line from Vijayawada to Margao, passing through Guntakal.
The Guntakal-Bangalore line was opened in 1892-93.[3] The metre gauge Guntakal-Mysore Frontier Railway was opened in 1893. It was operated by Southern Mahrata Railway
Notification For Guntakal
Guntakal diesel loco shed was started as a metre gauge shed but after gauge conversions in Guntakal and Hubli divisions a broad gauge shed was opened in 1995. It houses WDM-2, WDM-3A, WDM-3D , WDG-3A ,WDG-3A and WDP4 locos. There is a coaching maintenance depot at Guntakal. Since after overhaul with Electric Traction, indian railways also sanctioned Electric Loco shed.
The 223 km long Nandalur-Guntakal sector was electrified by 2012. As of 2014. electrification work in the Wadi-Guntakal sector, the Hospet-Guntakal sector and the 641 km now electrification completed up to guntakal. all the express trains are running with traction locos from chennai to guntakal.
How to Apply to Guntakal
The Guntakal Railway Station is a junction of tracks from 5 directions to Guntakal:
Guntakal-Guntur-Vijayawada-Howrah/New Delhi.
Guntakal-Ballari-Hubli-Vaso Da Gama.
Guntakal-Dharmavarm-Banglore/Tirupati.
Guntakal-Renigunta-Chennai.
Guntakal-Pune-Mumbai.
Amenities:
Guntakal Junction railway station has computerized reservation counters, waiting room, retiring room, non-vegetarian refreshment stall, light refreshment stall, tea stall and book stall.
Guntakal junction has 6 Platforms and each can handle a train with more than 24 Coaches . Daily 55 pairs of passenger trains passing through this junction and having halt more than 15 minutes
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Some Trains are originate and passes through Guntakal Junction railway station
17429:Rayalaseema Express
16571:Yesvantpur – Bidar Express
17416:Haripriya Express
22692:Nizamuddin – Bangalore Rajdhani Express
22691:Bangalore – Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express
22133:Solapur – Yesvantpur Super Fast Express
22134:Yesvantpur – Solapur Super Fast Express
16572:Bidar – Yesvantpur Express
11017:Chalukya Express
12735:Yesvantpur Garib Rath
12732:Secunderabad – Tirupati Super Fast Express
12214:Yesvantpur Duronto Express
17415:Haripriya Express
17308:Basava Express