Pathankot Cantonment railway station


Pathankot Cantonment railway station is located in Pathankot district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Pathankot.

Name change

Chakki Bank Railway Station was renamed Pathankot Cantonment Railway Station in 2013.

The railway station

Pathankot Cantonment Railway Station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – PTKC.

History

The long wide broad gauge Amritsar-Pathankot line was opened in 1884.
The long wide narrow gauge Kangra Valley Railway from Pathankot to Joginder Nagar was commissioned in 1929.
The line from Jalandhar City to Mukerian was constructed in 1915. The Mukerian-Pathankot line was built in 1952. The construction of the Pathankot-Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and opened in 1971.

Electrification

Electrification work of the Jalandhar-Jammu line is completed in 2015.

Loco shed

Pathankot Cantonment had a steam loco shed which has now been decommissioned.