Title - World’s Longest Railway Platform to come up at Gorakhpur Railway Station

Gorakhpur:  A.K.Atal, General Manager North Eastern Railway (NER) said that due to re-modeling of the station yard of Gorakhpur Junction, several rails have been either cancelled, short-terminated or diverted from today.

Atal said, till now Kharagpur was the longest platform with its length of 1,074 meters.

Gorakhpur will be of 1,300 meters. He added that the signalling system of the station is being modernized leading to rescheduling of several trains till October 6.

A NER press release said, 15105 and 15106 Chhapra-Gorakhpur Intercity, 15019 Gorakhpur-Nautanwa Intercity and 15020 Nautanwa-Gorakhpur Intercity will remain cancelled. Several long distance trains have been rescheduled to terminate or start from Lucknow, the release added.

The doubling of railway lines between Lucknow and Chhapra will be finished by March next year while an alternate rail way between Gorakhpur and Gonda will be available by year end after completion of gauge conversion between Barhni-Gonda and Gonda-Behraich, Atal said.