The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Railway.

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

The Varanasi–Lucknow–Moradabad main line of Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway was extended to Saharanpur in 1886.

[4] Ambala has an outstation shed for Shakurbasti WDS-4 locos.

[5] The Ambala Cantonment to moradabad jn line is classified as a "Group D " line and can take speeds up to 110 km/ h.[6] Moradabad and Ambala Cantonment on this line, are amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.