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Jalandhar Cantonment railway station is located in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Jalandhar.The railway stationJalandhar Cantonment railway station is at an elevation of 239m and was assigned the code – JRC.HistoryThe Sind, Punjab and Delhi railway completed the 483km long Amritsar-Jalandhar-Ambala-Saharanpur-Ghaziabad line in 1870 connecting Multan (now in Pakistan) with Delhi.The line from Jalandhar City to Mukerian was constructed in 1915. The Mukerian-Pathankot line was built in 1952. The construction of the Pathankot-Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and opened in 1971.Hoshiarpur was linked by rail with Jullundur Cantonment in 1913.ElectrificationThe Phagwara-Jalandhar City-Amritsar sector was electrified in 2003–04.DMU shedIndia’s first and largest DMU shed at Jalandhar holds 90 units placed in service in rural Punjab. It also houses two BEML built rail buses which operate on the Beas-Goindwal Sahib line.