It is a major halt for various important trains of Indian Railways like five sets of Rajdhani Express bound for Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad etc.It rose in prominence in the 17th century when Raja Bir Singh Deo of Orchha State constructed the Jhansi Fort in 1613.[1] Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi Junction (Jhansi Junction) Railway Station is linked with many industrial and important cities of India by direct trains like New Delhi, Prayagraj, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Sagar, Lucknow, Etawah, Varanasi, Jabalpur, Pune, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Kanpur, Vasco da gama, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Udaipur, Amritsar, Pathankot, Lucknow, Bhopal, Chennai, Gorakhpur, Coimbatore, Jammu, Agra, Amaravati, Raipur, Ahmedabad, Banda, Nagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode etc.Virangna Lakshmibai Jhansi Junction Railway Station is served by 4 broad gauge routes: There is an ongoing survey for a new line between Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi Junction Railway Station and Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh which would be further connected to Sawai Madhopur and Jaipur.and several other passengers and shuttles trains connecting Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra Cantt, Prayagraj, Manikpur, Banda Jn, Khajuraho, Tikamgarh, Bhopal, Bina and Itarsi.