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Clean
and
beautiful
place
and
morning
view
was
very
best.
Bikaner
railway
station
is
at
an
elevation
of
226
metres
(741
ft)
and
was
assigned
the
code
–
BKN.[1]
Bikaner
is
served
by
more
than
21
pairs
of
trains
each
day
with
multiple
daily
connections
to
Delhi,
Ahmedabad,
Vadodara,
Surat,
Mumbai
and
Chandigarh.
Within
Rajasthan,
there
are
also
multiple
daily
trains
available
for
Jodhpur,
Jaipur,
Nagaur,
Ratangarh,
Churu,
Barmer,
and
Jaisalamer.
There
are
also
daily
trains
to
Kota.
Daily
connections
to
Pathankot,
Amritsar,
Jammu,
Kalka,
Haridwar,
Agra,
Kanpur,
Lucknow,
Allahabad,
Varanasi,
Patna,
Durgapur,
Kolkata,
Guwahati
and
Dibrugarh
are
also
available.
Most
other
major
Indian
cities
such
as
Ujjain,
Pune,
Nagpur,
Hyderabad,
Vijayawada,
Chennai,
Coimbatore,
Mangalore,
Kochi,
Trivandrum,
Goa,
Puri,
Bubaneswar,
Sambalpur,
Raipur,
Bilaspur
and
Bhopal
are
connected
via
weekly,
biweekly
or
tri-weekly
trains.
Bikaner
railway
station
was
constructed
in
1891
with
a
Rs.
3,46,000
donation
by
Rai
Bahadur
Dewan
Bahadur
Sir
Kasturchand
Daga,
a
known
trader
from
the
city.
In
1889,
the
two
states
of
Jodhpur
and
Bikaner
formed
the
Jodhpur–Bikaner
Railway
to
promote
railway
development
jointly
within
the
Rajputana
Agency.
In
1891
the
1,000
mm
(3
ft
3+3⁄8
in)-wide
metre-gauge
Jodhpur–Bikaner
line
was
opened.
In
1901–02,
the
metre-gauge
line
was
extended
to
Bathinda.
The
Jodhpur–Bikaner
track,
along
with
the
link
to
Phulera,
had
been
taken
in/before
1991
for
conversion
to
5
ft
6
in
(1,676
mm)
broad
gauge.[5]
According
to
a
Press
Information
Bureau
release
issued
in
2008,
the
Jodhpur–Merta
City–Bikaner–Bathinda
line
was
broad
gauge.[6]
The
Bikaner–Rewari
line
was
converted
to
broad
gauge
during
the
period
2008–2011
Bikaner
Heritage
Rail
Museum
at
Bikaner
displays
items
related
to
the
Jodhpur
and
Bikaner
Railway
era.
It
was
opened
in
2012.[10]
Turban
Museum
in
platform
one
open
on
2021.
Displays
longest
turban
and
smallest
turban
in
world
made
by
a
Bikaner
artist
Pawan
vyas.[
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