Chhapra Railway Station built under Nitish Kumar

Chhapra Junction railway station, station code ''CPR'', is a railway station in

Saran district Saran district is one of the 38 Districts of Bihar, districts of Indian States and territories of India, state of Bihar. The district, part of Saran Division, is also known as Chhapra district after the headquarters of the district, Chhapra. It is ...

in the Indian state of

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

. Located on the North Eastern railway, the city is situated near the Ghaghara River and the

Ganga The Ganges ( ; in India: Ganga, ; in Bangladesh: Padma, ). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary riv ...

. The station is well connected to all parts of India.

Administration

This station falls under

Varanasi railway division Varanasi railway division is one of the three railway divisions under the jurisdiction of North Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 1 May 1969 and its headquarter is located at Varanasi in the state o ...

of North Eastern Railway zone and was electrified in 2012.

Infrastructure

The station is about in height and has about 8 platforms, 30 tracks and 5 lines branching to Ekma Siwan

Mashrakh Mashrakh is a Block and town of Saran District in the western part of Bihar, India. It is located on the right bank of Ghoghari river. It is situated at 40 km from Chhapra and 98 km from state capital Patna. There are 17 Panchayats in M ...

Sonepur

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district on the banks of Burhi Gandak River, Burhi Gandak river in the Tirhut division of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur distri ...

and

Ballia Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The eastern boundary of the city lies at the junction of two major rivers, the Ganges and the Ghaghara. The city is situated east of Varanasi and about 380 k ...

operating about a total of 200 trains, which originates or arrives here. Free and fast

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...

from Google WiFi and RailTel Corporation of India available here since 2016

Revenue

Classified under A-1 category with the zone, this

junction station ''Junction station'' usually refers to a railway station situated either on or close to a rail junction, where lines to two or more destinations diverge. Many junction stations have multiple platform faces to enable trains for multiple destinatio ...

generates about in revenue per annum.

References

External links

* Varanasi railway division Railway stations in Saran district Railway junction stations in Bihar {{Bihar-railstation-stub