Gorakhpur Junction railway station (station code: GKP) is located in the city of

Gorakhpur Gorakhpur is a city in the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the West Rapti River, Rapti river in the Purvanchal , Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometres east of ...

in the Indian state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

. It has the world's second longest railway platform after Hubballi Junction railway station in Karnataka. It serves as the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway, part of

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. The station offers Class A+ railway station facilities. Gorakhpur Junction railway station is a major railway station in the state of Uttar Pradesh, especially in the Purvanchal region (Eastern Uttar Pradesh). It connects Eastern Uttar Pradesh to

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, and Northern India to Bihar.

History

The

metre-gauge Metre-gauge railways ( US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and ...

Gonda loop, running between Gorakhpur and Gonda, was constructed by the

Bengal and North Western Railway The Bengal and North Western Railway was owned and worked by the ''Bengal and North Western Railway Company'' (registered 23 October 1882, dissolved October 1946). The Bengal and North Western Railway was merged into the Oudh and Tirhut Railway ...

between 1886 and 1905. The Kaptanganj– Siwan metre-gauge line was opened in 1913. The metre-gauge

Nautanwa Nautanwa is a town and Nagar Palika in Maharajganj district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 87 km from Gorakhpur, NH24 and 68km NH730 from Maharajganj and 7 km from Sonauli Indo-Nepal Border. Geography Nautan ...

branch line was opened in 1925. Conversion to

broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...

started with the Gorakhpur–Siwan section in 1981. The Gorakhpur–Paniyahwa section was converted in 1991. The Gorakhpur–Gonda loop was converted around 1985, and the Nautanwa branch line at about the same time. The Kaptanganj–Siwan line was converted around 2011 .

Electric Loco Shed, Gorakhpur

Second longest platform in the world

A remodeling of the Gorakhpur railway station was launched in 2009. The remodeling work was completed on a war footing within the scheduled time. With the inauguration of the remodeled yard on 6 October 2013, Gorakhpur has a platform measuring with ramp and without it. This is world's second longest railway platform.

Passenger movement

Gorakhpur is amongst the top hundred booking stations of

. The station handles 190~ trains daily. On some special occasions the number of trains increases up to 473. Some of the other railway stations in Uttar Pradesh handling large numbers of passengers are

Kanpur Central Kanpur Central (formerly known as Cawnpore North Barracks, station code: CNB) is a central and junction railway station in the city of Kanpur and is one of the five central Indian railway stations. It is third busiest in country after Howrah ...

Varanasi Junction Varanasi Junction railway station (station code: BSB), also known as Varanasi Cantt railway station, is the main railway station serving the city of Varanasi. The other key railway stations in the Varanasi Metro area are Banaras, Varanasi C ...

, Mathura Junction and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction.

References

External links

About Gorakhpur Railway station
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