Rau railway station


The Rau railway station is one of the local railway stations in Rau a suburb of Indore.
Rau is situated on rail line from Ratlam to Akola. Rail line is now converted from metergauge to broadgauge between ratlam to Mhow. Rau is well connected to Indore, Ratlam, Mhow, Khandwa, Akola and Ujjain. Nearest broadgauge railway station is the main railway station that is at Indore BG which is 18 km away. The next nearest stations are Mhow towards the south which is around 13 km to the south and Tihi which is the on the new Indore-Dahod & Indore-Chota Udepur railway line which is under construction. Rau is soon to be an official junction once the aforementioned lines become fully operational for passengers. The new line which diverges to the west is single line broadgauge and non-electrified railway line mainly used to transport containers from pithampur dry containers port near Tihi. The new railway line from Rau is laid till Tihi and the is under progress at snails pace. In 2008, the Union Cabinet approved the gauge conversion for the Ratlam-Mhow-Khandwa-Akola railway line.. The cost of the gauge conversion would be about Rs.1421.25 crore.

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