Ajmer Junction railway station

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Ajmer Junction railway station (code AII) is a major rail hub in Ajmer city, Rajasthan, India. It sits at an elevation of 464 metres (1,522 ft) and has six platforms and ten tracks. The station is on Jaipur Road in the North Western Railway zone, Ajmer Division, and offers parking (no bicycle facilities). It serves express and passenger trains.

Ajmer Junction connects four broad-gauge lines: Ahmedabad–Delhi (main line), Jaipur–Ahmedabad, Ajmer–Chittaurgarh, and a network of branches to Beawar (southwest), Chittorgarh Junction (south), Phulera Junction (north), and Pushkar Terminus (west). Nearby suburban stations include Madar Junction, Daurai, and Adarsh Nagar. The station has a railway workshop within its complex.

History: Ajmer began as a metre-gauge station with links to Chittaurgarh, Ahmedabad, and Phulera. In the 1990s, the Delhi–Jaipur and Jaipur–Ahmedabad lines were converted to broad gauge. Over time, the remaining lines were converted as well, and by around 2007 the line toward Ratlam via Chittorgarh was converted to broad gauge, making Ajmer a major broad-gauge junction.