The Bikaner railway division was formed in 1924, though its origin dates back to early 1880. In 1882, a wide metre gauge line from Marwar Junction to Pali was built by the Rajputana Railway. It was extended to Luni in 1884 and Jodhpur on 9 March 1885. New Jodhpur Railway was later combined with Bikaner Railway to form Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway in 1889. Later in 1900, Jodhpur–Bikaner line combined with Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway leading to connection with Hyderabad of Sindh Province. Later in 1924 Jodhpur and Bikaner Railways worked as independent Railways. After Independence, a part of Jodhpur Railway went to West Pakistan. In 1889, the Bikaner Princely State and Jodhpur Princely State started constructing the Jodhpur–Bikaner Railway within the Rajputana Agency. In 1891, the wide metre gauge Jodhpur–Bikaner line was commissioned under the Rajputana-Malwa Railway, Jodhpur-Merta Road section was commissioned on 8 April, the Merta Road-Nagaur section on 16 October, and the Nagaur-Bikaner section on 9 December. The Jodhpur–Bikaner line was extended to Bathinda in 1901–02 to connect it with the metre gauge section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the meter gauge of North Western RailwayDelhi–Fazilka line via Hanumangarh. In 1926, the workshop at Bikaner was set up to carry out periodic overhauling of metre gauge coaches and wagons. Sometime around or prior to 1991, the construction work for the conversion from meter gauge to wide broad gauge of the Jodhpur–Bikaner line, along with the link to Phulera, were started, and it was already functioning as broad gauge Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line by 2008. In 2012, the Bikaner Heritage Rail Museum was opened at Bikaner to displays items related to the Jodhpur and Bikaner Railway. In 2009, the metre gauge Hisar-Sadalpur line was converted to broad gauge. Between 2008–2011, the Bikaner-Rewari line was converted to broad gauge. In 1884, The Rajputana-Malwa Railway extended the wide metre gauge Delhi-Rewari section of Delhi–Fazilka line to Bathinda, which was The Southern Punjab Railway Co. opened the Delhi-Bathinda-Samasatta line in 1897. The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta to Karachi. In 2013, the new broad gauge electrified Rewari-Rohtak line was constructed.
* Bikaner railway division: covers Rajasthan and parts of Railway in Haryana
** Route km: broad gauge, metre gauge, total
** Track km: broad gauge, metre gauge, total
Network
The division has ≈14,000 employees handling 142 trains across 198 stations. The quantum of traffic is equally split between goods and passenger segment, with food grains, china clay and gypsum being the main outbound goods traffic. The network of this division covers the following states:
Rajasthan: Dhundhar region, Bikaner region and north Rajasthan
