Bagalkot railway station


Bagalkot Junction railway station with Indian Railways station code BGK is a B Category railway station in the Hubli railway division of South Western Railway in Bagalkot district, Karnataka, India. The station lies on the Gadag-Hotgi railway line, which serves Bagalkot and nearby towns with 3 platforms and was converted from meter gauge to broad gauge in December 2008. A new line is being constructed between Bagalkot and Kudachi. Railway stations have amenities such as a computerized reservation office, waiting room, retiring roombook stall.

Developments

Proposed Doubling & Electrification works for Gadag-Kudagi-Hotgi section

Gadag-Hotgi Railway line doubling is sanctioned in the year 2014-15 with part of length of this project, i.e. from Hotgi to Kudgi is taken up under Customer funding model and for this purpose National Thermal Power Corporation deposited an amount of Rs.946 cr with Indian Railways.
New Crossing station at Kudgi with 4 lines for giving sideline connectivity to 4000 MW Super Thermal Power Plant was commissioned on 29.01.2017.
Work is under progress in the Hotgi-Kudagi section. The stretch between Minchinal and Lachyan is targeted for commissioning during 2017-18.
Gadag-Hotgi Section is also sanctioned for Electrification and tenders are floated for the same.

Proposed new line project

A new railway branch line of 142 km is being constructed from Bagalkot to Kudachi via Kajjidoni which was sanctioned in the year 2010-2011 with an anticipated cost of 986.30 cr on 50:50 cost sharing basis and land free of cost by Government of Karnataka. The section between Bagalkot and Kajjidoni has been completed and CRS inspection between Bagalkot-Khajdoni was done on 14.06.2017. And a Rail bus is running between Bagalkot-Khajjidoni 5 days a week from Monday's to Thursday's except Saturday's & Sunday's.Further work can be taken up on acquisition of land by State Government.

Major trains

Trains those run through/from Bagalkot are: