Railway station in Uttarakhand
Laksar Junction railway station is a railway station located in Laksar , a small city in Haridwar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand .[ 1]
Laksar Junction railway station (code LRJ) is a major railway station in Uttarakhand , the largest railway junction in the state. It opened in 1866 when the Awadh-Rohilkhand line was extended to Saharanpur .
The station serves Laksar city and environs. Laksar Junction is an A Category station under the Moradabad Division of the Northern Railway . It is one of the busiest stations in Uttarakhand in terms of frequency and the second largest in number of platforms. This station has 6 platforms serving Mail/Express , Superfast Express , Garib Rath Express , Antyodaya Express and local trains passing.
The station has direct connectivity with major cities, including Delhi , Mumbai , Kolkata , Amritsar , Chandigarh , Meerut , Jabalpur , Lucknow , Agra , Guwahati , Surat , Prayagraj , Patna , Dhanbad , Gorakhpur , Darbhanga , Kamakhya , Kota , Jammu , Aligarh , Mathura , Ayodhya , Ramnagar , Kathgodam , Haridwar , Dehradun and Rishikesh . Nearly 90 trains stop at Laksar Junction on a daily, weekly or bi-weekly basis.[clarification needed ]
Laksar Junction railway station is located at the junction point of Dehradun , Saharanpur and Moradabad . It is an interchange station for the trains coming from Saharanpur , Dehradun , Haridwar and Rishikesh , including several trains such as Kanpur Central-Jammu Tawi Superfast Express , Kamakhya-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express , Maur Dhawaj Express and Darbhanga-Jalandhar City Antyodaya Express .
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NER Tooltip North Eastern Railway zone
NR Tooltip Northern Railway zone
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