Munabao railway station has an abandoned and eerie feel but it is an international railway station. The station is well barricaded. Thar express used to run from jodhpur to karachi till 2019. It is well gaurded by the first line of defence (BSF). They are polite and spell out the dos and donts very clearly. The railway line is a non electric single track meter gauge. The road from north (jaisalmer side) is the newly constructed awesome NH70. The road going towards barmer is also fairly decent.
Munabao Railway Station (MBF) is located in Barmer district of Rajasthan at an elevation of 80 metres (260 ft). It is the end railway transit point on the Indo-Pak border. A 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre-gauge line from Luni to Shadipalli, in Sind, was built across the Thar Desert in 1902 and the line from Shadipalli to Hyderabad (now in Pakistan) was regauged. The Luni–Barmer–Munabao section was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2004. According to a 1929 issue of the Railway Gazette, the Sind Mail used to run on this route between Ahmedabad and Hyderabad, Sindh. The route was in use with through services between Jodhpur and Karachi till around 1965. On the Pakistan side, Khokhrapar was the terminus of a metre-gauge branch line from Hyderabad, Sindh via Mirpur Khas, 135 km from the border. The rail link across Munabao–Khokhrapar border was restored in 2006. As per the agreement between Indian and Pakistan railways, the Thar Express travels once a week from Karachi during a six-month block, crosses the international border, and the passengers change over to an Indian train at Munabao for their onward journey to Bhagat Ki Kothi in Jodhpur. On the Indian side the Thar Link Express runs non-stop once a week from Bhagat Ki Kothi (near Jodhpur) to Munabao and back. Pakistan Railways have set up a new railway station namely as Zero Point Railway Station at Khokhrapar. There is a passenger train linking Munabao to Barmer, which runs on all days except Monday.
Close to Pakistan border. India''s last railway station in this direction.
The feeling of being at the border it self is something extra ordinary. Added to it, this is the last railway station. That is something more great. And if you happen to be there on a Saturday evening, then nothing like it. Because you can see the train arrival and departure also. Salute to our INDIAN RAILWAY as well as BSF. We are blessed because of them.
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