Immediately after LJN, you have a line to join main lines from LKO just before Alambagh Cabin, but these lines are very rarely used by trains from LJN to CNB and they use mainly the line which cuts the BE line on a flyover. The main purpose of this line is to facilitate movement of trains like 3019/20 Bagh exp, 5011/12 LJN-SRE exp, and 2209/10 CNB-KGM GR which have to move from LJN to BE line and vice versa.

Posted by Samar on 2009 Mar 25 12:40:38 +0000

The MG line to Sitapur does not terminate at Aishbagh but still goes ahead and ends just a kilometer from LJN; however, trains are operational from Aishbagh only. The goods line to avoid LKO cuts CNB line on flyover with CNB line on the lower level between Manaknagar and Amausi.

Posted by Samar on 2009 Mar 25 12:44:59 +0000

If LKO is the main station, then what is LJN?Is LJN a terminus?

Posted by Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer on 2009 Mar 25 13:23:18 +0000

Yes Ranjeet, LJN is a terminus (used to be pure MG in the good old days). LJN belongs to NER and LKO to NR, though both are in the same compound so to speak.

Samar, very good map. You can actually differentiate between the NER and NR lines without any help of different colours. In the MG days, both the Kanpur and Barabanki sectors had both MG (NER) and BG (NR) lines running parallel, though NER lines had to take the loop through Badshahnagar.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2009 Mar 25 13:39:49 +0000