Khushal Kot railway station is located in Khushal Kot, a village in Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This railway station was built around 1887 during the British era. Khushal Railway Station is located on the Karachi – Peshawar line. Khushal Kot Railway Station is located between Nowshera Junction Railway Station and Pirbihai Railway Station.
There is also a military cantonment at Nowshera, situated on a sandy plain along the right bank of the Kabul river, two miles in diameter, and surrounded by low hills on all sides except the north, which opens towards the river. . Gerritharn now consisted of one British infantry regiment, two native cavalry and four infantry regiments, one battalion, and one bearer corps belonging to the Peshawar Division of the Northern Command. The railway and railway bridge across the river was opened on 1st December 1903. The town, 3 miles from the cantonment, with the headquarters of Nowshera Tehsil, has a government dispensary and a local middle school managed by the District Board. Borders of Nowshera =- Nowshera district is bordered by Peshawar district in the west, Mardan district in the north, Charsadda district in the northwest, Peshawar district in the northeast, Mardan district in the north, Orakzai agency in the west and Attock district in the east. The weather in Nowshera is generally colder from November to February and hot from June to August.
Khushal Kot railway station is very beautiful and clean railway station. The building of this railway station is also beautifully constructed of stone bricks and painted white inside and out. There are many rooms in the building of Khushal Kot railway station which include station master office, ticket office, waiting rooms, batti godam and store room etc. Kalma Tayyaba is written on the front wall of the building of this railway station and Khushal is written in Urdu and English in black ink in the center of the same building. A red stand is also placed in this railway station building on which are hung red buckets filled with sand and water which are used to extinguish the fire. The beauty of this railway station is also due to the flower plants along the pillar of the station porch. This railway station has a single platform and is quite big but its height is very low. A Pakistan flag is hoisted on the roof in the center of the main building of Khushal Kot railway station. Khushal Kot Railway Station has a large population around it. There is also a mosque near this railway station where the people around and the staff of the station offer prayers. There is a good area around this railway station and there is a lot of open area. There are also many trees around this railway station, including sycamore, tali and berry. There is no station master at this railway station at present. Three lines pass through Khushal railway station, one main line and two loop lines, a lot of trains pass through this station but no train stops here at the moment.
No Train stop at that station. Trains that don’t stop here
| Train Name | Previous Station Name | Prev Station Arrival | Prev Station Departure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14DN – Awam Express | Peshawar City | 8:25 | 8:30 |
| 13UP – Awam Express | Nowshera Jn. | 15:43 | 15:45 |
| 40DN – Jaffar Express | Peshawar City | 7:09 | 7:10 |
| 39UP – Jaffar Express | Nowshera Jn. | 17:11 | 17:13 |
| 2DN – Khyber Mail | Peshawar City | 22:09 | 22:11 |
| 1UP – Khyber Mail | Nowshera Jn. | 4:18 | 4:22 |
| 47UP – Rehman Baba Express | Nowshera Jn. | 12:34 | 12:36 |
| 48DN – Rehman Baba Express | Peshawar City | 11:09 | 11:10 |