GDG Railway Station Information and Trains for GDG

In 1881 the Bombay Eastern Deccan Railway was under construction with William Michell the Engineer-in-Charge. This line immediately upon opening became the Bijapur Branch of the Southern Mahratta Railway.

The Southern Mahratta Railway (SMR) was founded in 1882 to construct a metre gauge(MG) railway between Hotgi and Gadag (opened to traffic in 1884), one of the "famine lines" set up with a guarantee. In the same year (1882), it was contracted by the Indian State of Mysore to work the several metre gauge lines that the Mysore State had built

was in the course of construction.

In 1888, a line was extended from Londa towards the Portuguese colony of Goa where it connected with the Marmagao line at Castle Rock. (From 1902 this line was leased as the West of India Portuguese Railway.) By 1890, this line extended from Londa eastwards via Guntakal to Bezwada, and northwards to Poona, turning the SMR from an assortment of branches to a real railway network.In 1908, the SMR merged with the Madras Railway(MR) to form the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway(M&SMR)

In the year 2013-14, Ministry of railways had sanctioned 252 km of rail line between Gadag Jn and Wadi Jn

Physical Survey completed and Report is under preparation

Survey for Conducting Reconnaissance Engineering cum Traffic Survey for new line between Gadag to Krishnar via Kotumachagi, Naregal, Gajendragarh, Hanumapur, Ilkal and Lingasugur(216 km).

Gadag-Hotgi Section is also sanctioned for Electrification and tenders are floated for the same.

Gadag Junction will be Complete Double Electric Line Station as Hospet- Vasco Da Gama rail line getting Doubled & Electrified in phases. Hospet -Hubli-Londa-Vasco-da-gama DL (352.58 km) sanctioned in the year 2010-11. This project is being executed by RVNL.So far 67 km. has been commissioned. Further 36 km is targeted for commissioning in 2017-18.Hospet-Tinai ghat Rail Electrification Tender is floated.

Trains those run through/From Gadag Junction are:, Howrah - Vasco da Gama Amaravati Express, Gol Gumbaz Express, Haripriya Express, Hampi Express, Hubballi - Secunderabad Express, Hubballi - Varanasi Weekly Express, Hubballi - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express (via Bijapur), Amaravati Express, Yesvantpur - Barmer AC Express, Yesvantpur-Bikaner Express, Mumbai CSMT - Gadag Express*, Solapur - Hubballi Intercity Express, Tirupati-Vasco da Gama Express, Hyderabad-Vasco da Gama Express, Kacheguda - Hubballi Prasanti Nilayam Triweekly Express, Manuguru - CSMT Kolhapur Express, Mysore - Sainagar Shirdi Express, Kacheguda - Vasco Da Gama Quarterly Express, Ajmer - Bangalore City Garib Nawaz Express, Bhagat Ki Kothi−Bangalore City Express (via Guntakal), Tirupati/Hyderabad- Vasco Da Gama Weekly Express, Solapur - Gadag DEMU Passenger, Solapur - Dharwad Passenger, Bijapur - Hubli Passenger, Ballari - Dharwad Passenger, Tirupati - Hubli Fast Passenger, Hubballi - Vijayawada Passenger, Chikkabenakal - Hubli Fast Passenger