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Gorakhpur Junction | |||||||||
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| Indian Railways Station | |||||||||
Gorakhpur Junction Railway Station
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| Location | Station road near Dharamshala, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh India | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°45′35″N 83°22′54″E / 26.7598°N 83.3818°E / 26.7598; 83.3818 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 84 metres (276 ft) | ||||||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||||||
| Operated by | North Eastern Railway | ||||||||
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| Platforms | 10 platforms Length– 1,366 m (4,482 ft) | ||||||||
| Tracks | 28 | ||||||||
| Connections | Auto stand, Bus stand | ||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||
| Structure type | Standard (on ground station) | ||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||
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| Status | Functioning | ||||||||
| Station code | GKP | ||||||||
| Zone(s) | North Eastern Railway zone | ||||||||
| Division(s) | Lucknow NER | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| Opened | 1930 | ||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||
| 200,000/per day | |||||||||
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Gorakhpur Junction railway station (station code: GKP) is located in the city of Gorakhpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It has the world's second longest railway platform after Hubballi Junction railway station[2] in Karnataka. It serves as the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway, part of Indian Railways. The station offers Class A-1 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) and it connects Eastern Uttar Pradesh to Bihar, Nepal and Northern India to Bihar.
The 135-mile (217 km) metre-gauge Gonda loop, running between Gorakhpur and Gonda, was constructed by the Bengal and North Western Railway between 1886 and 1905. The 79-mile (127 km) Kaptanganj–Siwan metre-gauge line was opened in 1913. The 25-mile (40 km) metre-gauge Nautanwa branch line was opened in 1925.[3]
Conversion to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge started with the Gorakhpur–Siwan section in 1981. The Gorakhpur–Paniyahwa section was converted in 1991.[4] 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 .[3]
| SN | Locomotives | HP | Quantity |
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| 1. | WAP-7 | 6350 | 5 |
| 2. | WAP-4 | 5350 | 44 |
| Total Locomotives Active as of July 2024 | 49 | ||
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 1,366.33 metres (4,482.7 ft) with ramp and 1,355.40 metres (4,446.9 ft) without it.[2][5] This is world's second longest railway platform.[6][7]
Gorakhpur is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railways.[8] The station handles 190~ trains daily. On some special occasions the number of trains increases up to 473.[citation needed] Some of the other railway stations in Uttar Pradesh handling large numbers of passengers are Kanpur Central,[9] Varanasi Junction,[10] Mathura Junction[11] and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction.[12]
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Top 100 booking stations of Indian Railways
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