The Bina - Katni Rail Route is the railway route between Bina Junction railway station and New Katni Junction railway station of Katni

Katni

Katni is a town on the banks of the Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Katni District. It is located in the Mahakoshal Region of Central India. The city is away from the Divisional Headquarters of the region, Jabalpur...

History

• The rail route was established in the year 1923 before India got independence.
• It was started with a single route track which was later converted to triple track in year 1982.
• It got electrified in year 1991

Important trains passing through

The rail route serves important stations for both goods as well as passenger express and mail trains. The important trains include :

• Bhopal - Rewa Rewanchal Express
  Rewanchal Express
  The Rewanchal Express or Bhopal Rewa Express is a daily express train operated by West Central Railway's, Bhopal division...
  
  
• Bhopal - Bilaspur Express
  Bhopal - Bilaspur Express
  The Bhopal – Bilaspur Express/Passengeror 'Bilaspur' is an express passenger train service running between Bhopal Junction railway station of Bhopal City, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh and Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh -Number and Nomenclature:The number provided for the train is :* 18235 - from...
  
  
• Bhopal - Howrah Express
• Bhopal - Itarsi Vindhyachal Express
  Vindhyachal Express
  The Vindhyachal Express is an express train service offered by West Central Railways. It runs between Bhopal Junction railway station of Bhopal City, the capital of Madhya Pradesh and Itarsi Junction...
  
  
• Bhopal - Lucknow Express
  Bhopal - Lucknow Express
  The Bhopal - Lucknow Express is a Tri-Weekly superfast express train service offered by West Central Railways Bhopal Division...
  
  
• Bhopal - Damoh Intercity Express
• Indore - Howrah Shipra Express
  Kshipra Express
  The Shipra Express is a daily express train of Indian Railways, which runs between Indore Junction railway station of Indore, the largest city & commercial hub of Central Indian state Madhya Pradesh and Howrah, the commercial...
  
  
• Indore - Jabalpur Intercity Express
• Jabalpur - Rajkot Express
• Jabalpur - Hazrat Nizamuddin MP Express
• Jabalpur - Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express
  Gondwana Express
  The Jabalpur - Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express is a superfast express train of West Central Railway in India. It runs between Jabalpur Junction and Hazrat Nizamuddin daily.Following is a detailed train schedule...
  
  
• Jabalpur - Jaipur Express
  Dayodaya Express
  The Dayodaya Express is the super fast express train service of West Central Railway. It runs between Jabalpur Junction railway station of Jabalpur in Eastern Madhya Pradesh and Jaipur Junction railway station of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan....
  
  
• Jabalpur - Jammu Tawi Durgavati Express
  Durgavati Express
  The Durgavati Express or Jabalpur - Jammu Tawi Express is a bi weekly mail express train service run by West Central Railway. It runs between Jabalpur Junction railway station of Jabalpur, an important military hub of Eastern Madhya Pradesh state and Jammu Tawi railway station of Jammu & Kashmir...
  
  
• Jaipur - Durg Express
  Jaipur - Durug Express
  The Jaipur - Durug Express or Durg Express is a weekly express train connecting Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan and Durg, a town in Chhattisgarh....
  
  
• Jammu Tawi - Durg Express
  Jammu
  Jammu , also known as Duggar, is one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.Jammu city is the largest city in Jammu and the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir...
  
  
• Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) - Varanasi Kamayani Express
  Kamayani
  Kamayani is a Hindi epic poem by Jaishankar Prasad . It is considered one of the greatest literary works written in modern times in Hindi literature...
  
  
• Puri - Haridwar Kalingutkal Express
• Amritsar - Vishakhapattanam Hirakund Express
  Sambalpur
  Sambalpur is a city in Sambalpur district in the Indian state of Orissa.It lies at a distance of 321 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar. In the year 1876, Sambalpur was established as a municipality. It is currently the headquarters and the largest city of Sambalpur district. It is also...
  
  
• Udaipur City - Shalimar Express
  Shalimar
  Shalimar is a Kashmiri term that may refer to:In Pakistan and India*Shalimar means abode of love.*Shalimar Gardens, also called Shalimar Bagh, several royal gardens of the Mughal Empire...
  
  
• Ajmer - Kolkata Express
  Ajmer
  Ajmer , formerly written as Ajmere, is a city in Ajmer District in Rajasthan state in India. Ajmer has a population of around 800,000 , and is located west of the Rajasthan state capital Jaipur, 200 km from Jodhpur, 274 km from Udaipur, 439 km from Jaisalmer, and 391 km from...
  
  

• Bina- Katni 505 Passenger
  Bína
  Bíňa is a municipality and village in the Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.-History:In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1135 written as Byn. Earlier the Romans built a fortress here and in 173 emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote his famous diary in this...
  
  
• Damoh - Kota Passenger
• Bina - Damoh Passenger
• Saugor - Katni Passenger
• Saugor - Chirmiri Passenger

Trains waiting for approval

As per demands and to reduce passenger traffic of the route, a few trains were demanded which though got the green signal (but these were not announced in the Rail Budget) from the parliament but just waiting for approval by the railway minister. These demanded trains include :

• Bhopal - Saugor Passenger by extending Bhopal - Bina Passenger to Saugor
• Nagpur - Rewa Super Fast Express

Important railway stations

On the route, the following are the main railway stations :

• Bina Junction (Madhya Pradesh)
• Sagar Railway Station
• Khurai Railway Station
  Khurai Railway Station
  Khurai Railway Station is one of the important railway station of West Central Railway as well as, it is the main railway station of Khurai City in Madhya Pradesh.It is located in Indraprastha Colony,Khurai-Location:...
  
  
• New Katni Junction (Madhya Pradesh)
• Damoh Railway Station
  Damoh
  Damoh is a city in the Sagar Division of northeast Madhya Pradesh in India, east of state capital Bhopal and in north by Tikamgarh. It is the administrative headquarters of Damoh District.-Geography:...
  
  

Trivia

• This route do not bound any passenger train from 12pm to 6pm from Bina to Katni despite of heavy passenger traffic
• It is one of the oldest rail route in India