Hathras Junction railway station is on the KanpurâÂÂDelhi section of HowrahâÂÂDelhi main line and HowrahâÂÂGayaâÂÂDelhi line. It is located in Hathras district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It serves Hathras and surrounding areas.
Hathras Junction railway station is one having an oddity. The station is on the broad gauge KanpurâÂÂDelhi section. A Broad gauge line takes off from this station and goes to Hathras Kila railway station. At the Kanpur-end of the Hathras Junction railway station, the MathuraâÂÂKasganj (now broad gauge) line cuts across the broad-gauge line at right angles and has a separate overhead station named Hathras Road within the same premises. Hathras lies 9 km away in the west and is also served by Hathras City railway station on the broad gauge (previously metre gauge) line.
Through trains started running on the HowrahâÂÂDelhi line in 1865âÂÂ66.
The long Hathras Road-Mathura Cantt line was opened in 1875 by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. It was transferred to North Eastern Railway in 1952. The MathuraâÂÂKasganj line was converted from -wide metre gauge to broad gauge in 2009.
The Tundla-Hathras-Aligarh-Ghaziabad sector was electrified in 1975âÂÂ76.
The station provides connectivity to neighbouring major railway stations like , , , , , , , Agra Cantt., Etawah, , etc. <br> It also facilitates connectivity to many cities like New Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Lucknow, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Varanasi, Kota, Jaipur, Tatanagar, Patna, Kolkata etc.