Bareilly Junction railway station
The construction of a railway line from Lucknow to Sandila and then further onwards to Hardoi was completed in 1872.[7] Prior to that, another railway line connecting Moradabad to Chandausi had already been built in 1872; it too was extended to Bareilly, the construction completed on 22 December 1873.[7] A new railway line connecting Bareilly and Moradabad via Rampur, called the Bareilly–Moradabad Chord, was approved on 4 December 1891, and was completed by 8 June 1894.[7] Bareilly railway station is well connected to Lucknow, Delhi, Jammu, Amritsar, Ambala, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Ludhiana, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Dhanbad, Mau, Ghazipur, Howrah, Guwahati, Patna, Agra, Aligarh, Moradabad, Badaun, Dehradun, Allahabad, Kathgodam, Mumbai, Ahmedabad Surat Indore Bhopal City Electric buses are also started in the city.[citation needed] Bareilly is the 50th Major city in India and 8th in Uttar Pradesh.