Marwar Junction railway station

Marwar Junction railway station (station code MJ) is located in Pali district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It serves the census town at Marwar Junction.

The railway station
Marwar Junction railway station is at an elevation of 267 m and was assigned the code – MJ.

History
Rajputana State Railway extended the Delhi–Ajmer -wide metre-gauge line to Ahmeabad in 1881. It was converted to broad gauge in 1997.

The Rajputana–Malwa Railway built the metre-gauge line from Marwar Junction to Pali in 1882. Later, this section was extended to Jodhpur and formed the Jodhpur Railway. The line now runs up to Munabao on the India–Pakistan border and has been fully converted to broad gauge.

The Mavli–Marwar metre-gauge line was opened in 1936.

In fiction
The station is mentioned in Chapter 1 of Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Man Who Would Be King" which was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888). It is the meeting place of the narrator, Kipling in all but name, and Daniel Dravot.