Warisaliganj railway station is a major railway station in

Nawada district Nawada district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. Nawada is its administrative headquarters. The district is the easternmost district of the Magadh division, one of the nine administrative divisions of Bihar. The ...

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 ...

. Its code is WRS.

Line and location

The station lies on Tilaiya Junction–Luckeesarai Junction line of

East Central Railway zone The East Central Railway (abbreviated ECR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India. It is headquartered at and comprises , , , and divisions. History First set up on 8 September 1996 with headquarters at Hajipur, Bihar, East Central R ...

which is a part of

Gaya–Kiul line The Gaya–Kiul line is a railway line connecting Gaya on the Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line and Kiul on the Howrah–Delhi main line both in the Indian state of Bihar. History Several years before the Grand Chord was built, a connection from ...

Infrastructure

The station consists of three platforms and a rack point.

Importance

It is also one of the important rack point for freight Wagons for

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in the Nawada district.

Services

It serves

Warisaliganj Warisaliganj is a Community Development block and a Municipal Council in Nawada district in the Indian state of Bihar. History Warisaliganj, to the north of Nawada, was founded by Waris Ali khan, brother of Kamgar khan in Mayi family. Geogr ...

town to the district headquarter Nawada and other districts like Sheikhpura, Lakhisarai and Gaya. The town is served by a direct daily train to Howrah and a weekly service to Guwahati via Bhagalpur. The state capital Patna can be reached through a stop-over at

Kiul Junction Kiul Junction railway station (station code: KIUL), is one of the major railway junctions in Danapur division of East Central Railway zone, East Central Railway. Kiul is connected to metropolitan areas of India, by the Howrah–Delhi main line ...

Gaya Junction Gaya Junction railway station is a junction station serving the city of Gaya, the headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh Division in the Indian state of Bihar. Gaya is in the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway division of the East Centra ...

from where rest of India is well connected. The following trains run from Warisaliganj railway station : * Gaya–Howrah Express * Gaya–Jamalpur Passenger (unreserved) * Gaya–Kiul Passenger (unreserved) * Gaya–Jhajha Fast Passenger (unreserved) * Gaya–Kamakhya Weekly Express * Rampurhat–Gaya Passenger (unreserved) *Kiul Rajgir special *Bhagalpur Rajgir special *Gaya-Kiul Memu

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Railway stations in Nawada district Danapur railway division Railway stations in India opened in 1879 {{Bihar-railstation-stub