Prayagraj Chheoki Junction railway station, formerly Allahabad Chheoki railway station (station code: PCOI), is one of the major railways stations (besides

Prayagraj Junction railway station Prayagraj Junction (station code: PRYJ), is a railway station on the Howrah–Delhi main line, Prayagraj–Mau–Gorakhpur main line and Howrah–Prayagraj–Mumbai line. It is the headquarters of the North Central Railway zone. It is locat ...

) located in

Prayagraj district Allahabad district, officially known as Prayagraj district, is the most populous district of Uttar Pradesh state of India. The district headquarters is Allahabad which was renamed Prayagraj at the same time as the district was renamed. The Di ...

. Chheoki is at a distance of 10 km from Prayagraj Junction on the Howrah–Delhi main line. Trains that bypass Prayagraj Junction and which come from Jabalpur and go towards

Mughalsarai Mughalsarai (; English: '' Mughal Tavern''), officially known as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar, is a city and a municipal board in the Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh. Located around from Varanasi, it is an important railway junction ...

usually stop at Chheoki. To reduce the load on the main junction, trains were shifted to Chheoki. Chheoki has three platforms that are high-level platforms and one UTS.

History

The station was constructed to decongest Prayagraj Junction and provide a separate route for trains to southern India and Jabalpur which originate from eastern India and Mughalsarai. A delay of more than 30 minutes for an engine change at Prayagraj is thus avoided. This allows trains on the New Delhi–Howrah route to run punctually since scarce platform space at Prayagraj Junction is freed up.

Amenities

The station is a B-class station and part of North Central Railways under the

Prayagraj railway division Prayagraj Division, formerly Allahabad Division, is one of the three railway divisions under North Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 5 November 1951, and its headquarter is located at Prayagraj in the st ...

. Some popular trains that stop at Chheoki are

Bhagmati Express The 12577 / 12578 Bagmati Express is a weekly Superfast train from Darbhanga in Bihar to Mysore in Karnataka, a 3041 km long route and it is operated by Indian Railways–East Central Railway zone. This train is named after the Bagmati ...

, Khwaja Garib Nawaz Madar–Kolkata Express, Bhagalpur–Ajmer Express,

Chambal Express The 12175 / 12176 Chambal Express is a Express train of the Indian Railways connecting in West Bengal and of Madhya Pradesh. It is currently being operated with 12175/12176 train numbers three days a week. Service The 12175/Chambal Express ...

Mahanagari Express The 22177/22178 Mahanagari Express is an express train, belonging to Indian Railways, that runs between Mumbai CSMT and in India. It operates as train number 22177 from Mumbai CSMT to Varanasi Junction and as train number 22178 in the reverse ...

Shipra Express The Shipra Express (pronounced as Shiprã Express) is a tri-weekly superfast express train of Indian Railways, which runs between Indore Junction railway station of Indore, the largest city & commercial hub of Central Indian state Madhya Pradesh ...

Sanghamithra Express The 12295 / 12296 Sanghamitra Superfast Express is a Superfast Express train that runs daily between the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal in Bengaluru, Karnataka and Danapur railway station in Patna, Bihar. This is the one and only daily train fr ...

Tapti Ganga Express,

Howrah–Mumbai Mail The 12809/10 Howrah Junction–Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mail is a Mail train belonging to Indian Railways - South Eastern Railways that runs between Howrah Junction and Mumbai CSMT in India. Initially it connected Howrah ...

and

Pune–Danapur Superfast Express Pune – Danapur Superfast Express is a superfast train of the Indian Railways connecting Pune Junction in Maharashtra and Danapur of Bihar. It is currently being operated with train numbers 12149/12150 on a daily basis. Service It averages ...

, Bhagalpur Antyodaya Express, Humsafar Express, and Mahamana Express. Trains plying between Manikpur– Jabalpur– Itarsi, Manikpur– Jhansi– Gwalior, Manikpur– Katni– Bhopal– Indore and Manikpur– Nagpur– Gondia–

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– Yesvantpur transit through Cheoki. The station currently lacks facilities like porters, however efforts are being made to convert the station to a satellite hub with better passenger amenities since several trains to southern India transit through this station.

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