get there and around
The city is well connected via rail, road and air transport services.
Air
Air Deccan to and from Delhi, Indore and Bhopal to Gwalior's airport.
Indian Airlines Delhi to Jabalpur line also stops at Gwalior.
Railways
The Gwalior Junction GWL is part of the Jhansi Division of the North
Central Railways.
Gwalior's main station is one of the major commercial railway stations
of the North Central Railway of Indian Railways, which zonal Head
Quarter is centered in Allahabad. The station has won awards from
Indian Railways for clean infrastructure in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1992.
Express trains such as the Bhopal Express, Taj Express and Bhopal
Shatabdi stop at Gwalior.
Gwalior is, perhaps, one of the few places where both narrow gauge and
broad gauge railways tracks are still operational. The Gwalior narrow
gauge track is the narrowest in India.
Gwalior is well connected via train services to all parts of the
country including 4 metros. There are direct trains to Mumbai, Delhi,
Kolkata (Howrah), Chennai, Trivandrum, Indore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jammu,
Lucknow, Bhopal and other major towns. Gwalior is the main station
serving most of the important and long distance trains. There are two
other stations within the city limits, named Birla nagar and Sithouli.
These stations interconnect to other stations and also serve the short
distance trains connecting Gwalior to nearby towns and villages.
There are other narrow gauge stations within the city, named and
Motijheel. Gwalior lies on the longest functional broad gauge line in
India between Delhi and Mumbai.
Roads
Gwalior is fairly well connected to other parts of Madhya Pradesh and
India with national and state highways. The Agra-Bombay national
highway (NH3) passes through Gwalior. The Agra-Bombay Road runs though
the city connecting it to Shivpuri on one end and Agra on the other.
The city is connected to the Jhansi by the National Highway 75, towards
the south of the city. In the Northern, the city is connected to the
holy city of Mathura via National Highway 3. There are bus services to
and from all major and minor cities near Gwalior. The prominent one
being Bhopal, Agra, Delhi, Jabalpur, Jhansi, Bhind, Morena, Datia,
Jaipur and Indore.
Local transport
Gwalior's public transport system consists of tempos and horse drawn
tongas (which run fixed routes much like a bus system) and auto
rickshaw taxis. Recently the municipal corporation has launched Gwalior
City Bus covering some routes in the city.
The tempos and auto-rickshaws, are often cited as a cause of pollution
and road congestion, and the local government has plans to replace the
tempos with vans that shall run on Liquefied Petroleum Gas. However,
taken in itself, this solution ignores the congestion and pollution
caused by private cars, which is far more significant especially
considering that the impact of private cars is actually caused for the
benefit of a very small section of the city's population.
