Nainpur Junction railway station is a railway station in Mandla District, Madhya Pradesh. Its code is NIR. It serves the town of Nainpur.Century-old narrow gauge train track finally gets new lease of lifeFunds crunch hits gauge conversion work
Nainpur was a railway hub on the narrow-gauge () line. This was the junction point of Jabalpur 110 km to its north, Balaghat 76 km to its south, Mandla 50 km to its east and Chhindwara 150 km to its west. It is connected to Nagpur via Chhindwara and Gondia.Broad view on narrow gauge. Full StopWorld’s biggest narrow gauge train network set to sail into history
The station was Asia's largest narrow-gauge railway junction before the recent conversion to broad gauge. Presently, Mandla-Nainpur-Chhindwara tracks also has been converted to broad-gauge.Jabalpur Gondia via Nainpur is since converted to BG.Narrow gauge section closes from 1 October in Satputda valley The Jabalpur–Nainpur-Gondia track has been fully converted to broad gauge.
Currently some trains have started on this route. Raipur to Jabalpur Intercity Express (Train No. 11701 / Mook Mati Express) & Nainpur (NIR) to Indore (INDB) Panchvalley Express (Train No. 19344) are some of daily express trains.
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