If you have a train booked out of Jammu over the next week — heading home for the break, off to a coaching centre, or just travelling for work — double-check your schedule before you leave for the station. Development work at Mukerian station on the Jammu Division route is disrupting train operations from 23 June to 1 July 2026, and a number of services are affected.
What's changing
According to the railway notification, the impact comes in two forms — cancelled halts and rerouting:
- Cancelled stops at Mukerian: roughly 23 trains will skip their scheduled halt at Mukerian during this period. If Mukerian was your boarding or alighting point, you will need to plan an alternative.
- Rerouted services: trains 19224 and 19223 will be diverted via the Gurdaspur–Amritsar–Beas route from 25 June to 1 July, bypassing Mukerian and Pathankot Cantt stations altogether.
Because several of these are services that run to and from Jammu, the knock-on effects — revised timings, skipped stops, longer routes — can catch you out even if your origin or destination is not Mukerian itself.
Before you travel
The railways' own advice is the simplest: obtain correct information about your specific train and route before starting your journey. In practice, that means:
- Check your train's live status and revised timing on the official IRCTC app or the NTES portal on the day of travel.
- If your halt is among the cancelled ones, identify the nearest functioning station and adjust your plans early.
- Build in a buffer — rerouted trains via Amritsar–Beas run longer than the usual path.
It is a short, fixed disruption tied to infrastructure work, not a permanent change, and normal operations are expected to resume after 1 July. But for one week, a two-minute status check before you head out can save you a missed train or a long wait on the wrong platform.
Source: Daily Excelsior — Train operations to remain affected till July 1.
