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Railway station in Telangana, India

Ghatkesar

Indian Railway Station

General information

Location

Ghatkesar, Telangana
India

Coordinates

17°27′10″N 78°40′42″E / 17.452874°N 78.678258°E / 17.452874; 78.678258

Elevation

477.14 m above the sea level

Owned by

Indian Railways

Operated by

South Central Railway

Platforms

Tracks

Construction

Structure type

Standard (on ground station)

Parking

Yes (Available)

Other information

Status

Working

Station code

Zone(s)

South Central Railway

Division(s)

Secundrabad

History

Electrified

Yes

Location
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Ghatkesar (station code:GT), where, Ghat means Mountains and Kesar (Keseri) means Saffron of Persia, this is also a railway station located in Ghatkesar town, Medchal district on Secunderabad-Bibinagar line, which falls under South Central Railway (SCR), Secunderabad division. Ghatkesar is considered to be the capital suburbs of Hyderabad. The Ghatkesar Railway Station is serviced for 18 trains daily. Most of these services pass through the station. The Kazipet – Secunderabad and Tenali –Guntur – Secunderabad which passes through the station

Services

Passenger train services from Secunderabad to Guntur and Kajipetta division MEMU, DEMU, Passenger service starts from Bhongiri railway Station to Falaknuma railway station

Multi Modal Transport System (MMTS) Phase II work is nearing completion which will connect this Capitol suburbs with rest of the city over railway network.

Now Ghat Keseri station has four platforms and Quadru tracks to Secunderabad for operation of the MMTS Dedicated Corridor. It is a terminal end point of MMTS Phase two, and later extended to Yadhadhiri in the future pilgrimages.

References

"SCR starts 2 Memu trains". The Times of India. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
Express News Service (9 December 2011). "Corporation adamant on saving MEMU dream". CNN-IBM. Archived from the original on 18 March 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2011.

v t e South Central Railway
Administration	Ministry of Railways Rail Nilayam
History	Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway Hyderabad–Godavari Valley Railways Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway
Divisions	Hyderabad Nanded Secunderabad
Sections / Branch lines	Pagidipalli–Nallapadu section Secunderabad–Dhone section Nallapadu–Nandyal section
Railway stations	Karnataka Maharashtra Telangana
Subsidiaries	Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Rail Land Development Authority Central Organisation for Railway Electrification
Institutes	Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications
Transits	Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System
See also	Rail transport in India

Railway stations in Telangana

Indian
Railways

SCRTooltip South Central Railway zone

Guntakal	Krishna
Guntur	Miryalaguda Nalgonda
Hyderabad	Bolarum Jankampet Junction Kacheguda Mahbubnagar Malkajgiri Nizamabad Junction Kamareddi Manoharabad Siddipet
Nanded	Adilabad
Secunderabad	Begumpet Bhadrachalam Road Bhongir Bibinagar Chandanagar Dornakal Junction Errupalem Ghatkesar Hasanparthi Road Hyderabad Deccan Jangaon Kazipet Junction Koratla Kottapalli Karimnagar Khammam Madhira Mancherial Pagidipalli Peddapalli Junction Secunderabad Junction Shankarpalli Sirpur Kaghaznagar Sirpur Town Tandur Warangal

Hyderabad MMTS

MEMU

Falaknuma–Bhongir route

v t e Stations on the Falaknuma–Bhongir route (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit)
Falaknuma Huppuguda Yakutpura Dabirpura Malakpet Kachiguda Vidyanagar Jamia Osmania Arts College Sitaphalmandi Lallaguda Malkajgiri Charlapalli Ghatkesar Bibinagar Bhongir

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