Dr. Ambedkar Nagar Mhow | |
Style: | Indian Railways |
Type: | Express train and Passenger train station |
Address: | Simrol Road, Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh |
Country: | India |
Coordinates: | 22.5558°N 75.7707°W |
Elevation: | 5770NaN0 |
Owned: | Indian Railways |
Line: | Akola–Ratlam line |
Platform: | 4 |
Tracks: | 9 |
Other: | Indore Metro, Taxi stand, Auto stand |
Bicycle: | Available |
Parking: | Available |
Structure: | Standard (on-ground station) |
Status: | Functioning |
Operator: | Western Railway |
Former: | Mhow |
Electrified: | Yes |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map |
The Dr. Ambedkar Nagar railway station, also Mhow railway station, is one of the local railway stations in Mhow, a suburb of Indore.
This station on the Delhi–Hyderabad metre-gauge line was founded in the 1870s. The station is equipped with two reservation counters.[1]
Mhow has been connected to Indore and Khandwa by metre-gauge railway lines. In 2008, the Union Cabinet approved the gauge conversion for the Ratlam–Mhow-Khandwa–Akola railway line. (472.64 km). The cost of the gauge conversion would be about Rs.1421.25 crore.[2] [3] In January 2017, the station was named after B. R. Ambedkar.[4] [5] [6] [7]