Delhi Cantonment Railway Station
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Delhi Cantonment railway station (also known as Delhi Cantt.)(station code: DEC), is a railway station in
Delhi Cantonment Delhi Cantonment (ISO: ''Dillī Chāvanī''; popularly referred to as Delhi Cantt) is a Class I Cantonment Board established in 1914. The area of the Cantonment is and the population of the Cantonment as per the 2011 census is 110,351. The ...
, India.


History

This station originally operated as a
metre-gauge Metre-gauge railways ( US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and ...
railway station. It was converted to
broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...
following gauge conversion in 1991.


Trains

The most popular trains are the Royal Orient and DEE-BGKT Express. Some of the other trains that stop at Delhi Cantonment railway station are: * Jaipur–Delhi Sarai Rohilla AC Double Decker Express * Delhi Sarai Rohilla–Bandra Terminus Garib Rath Express * Ajmer–Hazrat Nizamuddin Jan Shatabdi Express * Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express * Chetak Express * Rajasthan Sampark Kranti Express * Ajmer–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Jan Shatabdi Express * Udaipur City–Delhi Sarai Rohilla Rajasthan Humsafar Express * Ala Hazrat Express (via Ahmedabad) * Ala Hazrat Express (via Bhildi) * Delhi Sarai Rohilla Sikar Express (via Jhunjhunu) * Bikaner Delhi Sarai Rohilla SF Express * Chandigarh – Ajmer Vande Bharat Express


References

Railway stations in South West Delhi district Delhi railway division Year of establishment missing {{Delhi-railstation-stub