page_title: Indore
section_title: Rail
hierarchical_section_title: Indore / Transport / Rail
caption_attribution_description: English: Indore Junction entrance (2)
context_page_description: Indore is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and has campuses of both the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management. Located on the southern edge of Malwa Plateau, at an average altitude of 553 meters above sea level, it has the highest elevation among major cities of Central India. The city is 190 km west of the state capital of Bhopal. Indore had a census-estimated 2011 population of 1,994,397 and 2,170,295. The city is distributed over a land area of just 530 square kilometres, making Indore the most densely populated major city in the central province. It comes under Tier 2 cities in India.
  Indore traces its roots to its 16th century founding as a trading hub between the Deccan and Delhi. The city and its surroundings came under Hindu Maratha Empire on 18 May 1724 after Peshwa Baji Rao I assumed the full control of Malwa.
context_section_description: The Indore Junction is an A-1 grade railway station with a revenue of more than Rs. 50 crore (500 million). The station comes under Ratlam Division of the Western Railways.
  Electrification of the Indore–Dewas–Ujjain was completed in June 2012. Ratlam–Indore broad gauge conversion was completed in September 2014. Indore–Mhow section was upgraded to broad gauge in 2016 and electrified in 2017.
  Aside from the main Indore Junction, the city of Indore has eight other railway stations:
caption: The Indore Junction eastern entrance
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