Bangalore City Railway Station

Bangalore City Railway Station is the main railway station of city, which contributes largely in passenger travel and also in goods transportation. It is the biggest railway station in state, and is set to add 2 more platforms in the existing 10. This development will soon increases the capacity of station to operate additional trains. It is well connected to rest of the country both by meter gauge and broad gauge. Most of the railway tracks are made up of broad gauge, which has 1.69 meter wide tracks. In desert areas and many other difficult areas, broad gauge tracks are difficult to laid, so meter gauge tracks are laid in such areas. There tracks are 1 meter wide, that's why these tracks are known as meter gauge.

It is an important junction of Southern Railway Junction. With the help of broad gauge, this station is connected with almost all important cities like New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Nagpur too. For any queries regarding train schedule, reservations, etc you can make a call on following numbers.

• For General Inquiry - 131 
• For Reservation Inquiry - 132 
• For Arrival & Departure Inquiry - 133 

This railway station is located near Kempegowda Bus Station in the Majestic area (city center) Bangalore, Karnataka. It serves buzzing cafe pub culture, which attracts many young professionals to thrive here. Although Bangalore city does not offer much in terms of tourist sights, you must visit Bangalore to experience and see modern and trendy vibes, emerging face of urban India, biggest IT park, and huge number of clean and beautiful gardens. The clean and easygoing city is also a perfect base to explore the surrounding of culturally reach area.

Some of the important trains that halt here are Brindavan Express, Karnataka Express, Bangalore Mail, Bangalore Express, Mysore Express, Kongu Express, and Rajdhani Express. Daily services to and fro Chennai and Mtsore are offered at this station. This station also provides many amenities like STD booths, information centres, post office, telegraph office, waiting rooms, refershment rooms, book stalls, computarised reservation centres, and so on. Due to all such features most of the tourists prefer to stay at comfortable Bangalore Hotels Near Railway Station. Some of the famous landmarks near railway station are Hotel Grand Ashok (3 km), MG Road (6 km), Taj West End (2 km), Vidhan Soudha (3 km), Bangalore International Airport (40-45 km), Jayanagar (7 km), Malleswaram Market (4 km).