Jalandhar Cantonment railway station is at an elevation of 239 metres (784 ft) and was assigned the code – JRC.

[1] The Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway completed the 483 km (300 mi) long Amritsar–Jalandhar–Ambala–Saharanpur–Ghaziabad line in 1870 connecting Multan (now in Pakistan) with Delhi.

The construction of the Pathankot–Jammu Tawi line was initiated in 1965, after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and opened in 1971.

[5] India's first and largest DMU shed at Jalandhar holds 90 units placed in service in rural Punjab.

It also houses two BEML-built rail buses which operate on the Beas–Goindwal Sahib line.