Kasur Junction railway station
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Kasur Junction Station قصور جنکشن ریلوے اسٹیشن | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 31°07′06″N 74°26′33″E / 31.1183°N 74.4424°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Ministry of Railways | ||||||||||
| Line | Lodhran–Raiwind Branch Line | ||||||||||
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| Station code | KUS | ||||||||||
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Kasur Junction Railway Station (Urdu and Punjabi: قصور جنکشن ریلوے اسٹیشن) is located in Pakistan.[1] Kasur Junction was a junction before the partition of India and Pakistan. But after partition it became only a railway station. Presently, there is only one train arrival and departure.
History
[edit]From here, a branch line used to go to Amritsar junction via Hussainiwala and Firozpur in India where it connected to the Jalandhar–Firozpur line. Since India–Pakistan war of 1971, the cross-border Kasur-Hussainiwala-Firozpur link is now dead,[2] though India still holds the daily India-Pakistan border ceremony in the form of beating retreat ceremony. However, India is constructing the Firopur-Patti line, to compensate for the lost link, to geostrategically enhance the Indian Railway network along the India-Pakistan border.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Owais Mughal (2004). "Pakistan Railway Stations". IRFCA. IRFCA. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ Sharma, Dinesh K (5 December 2013). "40 years after war, bridge opens near Hussainiwla borer". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ Ferozepur–Patti link on fast track as Centre takes over land cost: Bittu, Times of India, 13 Nov 2025.
