Holidays Travel Guide

Get There and Around

Ludhiana is well connected by rail as it is on main Delhi-Amritsar route and is an important railway junction with lines going to Jalandhar, Ferozepur, Dhuri and Ambala. The city is very well connected with daily or weekly trains from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jammu Tawi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Lucknow, etc. For administrative reasons the station is under Ferozepur Railway Division. There is also a proposal to construct a railway line between Ludhiana and Chandigarh. The government has even passed a dedicated freight track between Ludhiana and Kolkata.
Moving inside the city is done mostly by mini-buses, auto-rickshaws, and pedal rickshaws, loosely licensed by the Municipal Corporation. The government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Delhi for construction of a metro.
There is an airport at Sahnewal which is a satellite town of Ludhiana City, about 8km to the southeast, and there have been small commercial flights in the past from Delhi. On April 10, 2007 the Airport Authority of India has publicly said[citation needed] that plans for an international airport at Halwara are canceled. The government is looking at purchasing another 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land to construct the new international airport.[citation needed]. Ludhiana's status as a large industrial hub is cited as a reason for another international airport in Punjab after Amritsar.

Kingfisher Airlines will soon start service from Ludhiana airport.[5]
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