Gorakhpur Railway Station Gorakhpur Uttarpradesh

The Gorakhpur Railway Station is located in the heart of the city of Gorakhpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway. The station offers Class A railway station facilities. On October 6, 2013, Gorakhpur became the world's Longest Railway platform, after inauguration of the remodelled Gorakhpur Yard, with a stretch of around 1.35 kilometres (0.84 mi). Gorakhpur is also the headquarters of North Eastern Railways. The mechanical workshop, NER, Gorakhpur was established in 1903. Steam engines were maintained here for a long time, but now diesel engines, coaches, and wagons are the main subjects of maintenance here.Presently it is having the world's longest railway platform.

The Gorakhpur Railway Station is located in the land of the city of Gorakhpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway. The station offers Class A railway station facilities. On October 6, 2013, Gorakhpur became the world's Longest Railway platform, after inauguration of the remodelled Gorakhpur Yard, with a stretch of around 1.35 kilometres (0.84 mi). This Railway station is very important junction of Northern India.Railway Station need remodeling of platforms and other facilities like escalator, coach position indicator and Rajdhani Express connectivity.

The Metropolis city of Gorakhpur serves 10 local railway station known as Gorakhpur junction,Gorakhpur cantt,Domingarh,Sahjanwa,Sihapar,Maniram,Nakaha jungle,Kushmi,Jagatbela,and Unaula,

History

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.

Conversion to broad gauge 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 2006. Now Gorakhpur would have three new platforms. At present, Gorakhpur has the world's longest Platform.

Passenger Movement

Gorakhpur is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway. It handles over 189 trains and about 270,000 passengers daily. Some of the other railway stations in Uttar Pradesh handling large number of passengers are Kanpur Central (597,000 passengers daily),[8] Varanasi Junction (363,000), Mathura Junction (381,000) and Mughalsarai (417,000).

North Eastern Railway zone

The North Eastern Railway is one of the sixteen railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Gorakhpur and comprises Lucknow and Varanasi divisions as well as reorganized Izzatnagar division.

The North Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 by combining two Railway systems the Oudh and Tirhut Railway and Assam Railway and the Cawnpore-Achnera section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. The Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway was transferred to the North Eastern Railway on 27 February 1953. NER was bifurcated into two Railway Zones on 15 January, 1958, the North Eastern Railway and the Northeast Frontier Railway and all lines east of Katihar were transferred to Northeast Frontier Railway.[1] On 1 October 2002, Samastipur and Sonpur Divisions were transferred to East Central Railway. The present N. E. Railway (NER), after re-organisation of Railway Zones in 2002, comprises three Divisions - Varanasi, Lucknow & Izatnagar. NER has 3,402.46 route km with 486 stations. NER primarily serves the areas of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand & western districts of Bihar.

This Railway passes through/connects to many important tourist and cultural centres like Varanasi, Sarnath, Lucknow, Allahabad, Kushinagar, Lumbani, Ayodhaya, Nainital, Ranikhet, Kausani and Dudhwa.

The longest railway platforms in the world are

► Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India: 1,300 m (4,265 ft) ( longest in the world)

► Kharagpur, West Bengal, India: 1,072 m (3,517 ft) (2nd longest in the world)

► State Street Center subway station, Chicago, Illinois, USA: 1,067 m (3,501 ft) (longest in United States)

► Dunedin Railway Station, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand: 1,000 m (3,281 ft) (longest in southern hemisphere)

► Cheriton Shuttle Terminal, Folkestone, United Kingdom: 791 m (2,595 ft) (longest in Europe)

► East Perth railway station, Perth, Western Australia: 770 m (2,526 ft) (longest in Australia)

► Kalgoorlie railway station, Perth, Western Australia: 760 m (2,493 ft)

► Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 708 m (2,323 ft)

► Port Pirie, South Australia: 701 m (2,300 ft)

► East Tsim Sha Tsui Station, Kowloon, Hong Kong: longest platform with platform screen doors 300 m (984 ft)

Wow... Proud to be Gorakhpurite..