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Begusarai railway station (code BGS) is a railway station in the Sonpur division of East Central Railway. Begusarai is better known as the Industrial Capital of Bihar, the birthplace of noted poet Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and karmabhoomi of the Great freedom fighter, first chief minister and architect of modern Bihar Dr. Shrikrishna Sinha alias Sri Babu.

Begusarai Railway Station (BGS)
Indian Railways station
General information
Location	NH 31, Begusarai, Bihar India
Coordinates	25.4249°N 86.1342°E / 25.4249; 86.1342
Elevation	47 metres (154 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railway
Operated by	Indian Railway
Line(s)	Barauni–Katihar section Barauni–Guwahati line Jamalpur line
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Construction
Structure type	Standard (on-ground station)
Parking	Yes
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	BGS
Zone(s)	East Central Railway
Division(s)	Sonpur
History
Rebuilt	No
Electrified	2016[1]
Previous names	East Indian Railway
Location
Begusarai Railway Station (BGS) Location within India Show map of India Begusarai Railway Station (BGS) Begusarai Railway Station (BGS) (Bihar) Show map of Bihar

Begusarai is an industrial and commercial hub, a district headquarter town and a municipal corporation. The township of IOCL Barauni Refinery is situated in Begusarai municipal corporation area.

Begusarai railway station is the main station of Begusarai district. Despite all these facts, more than one dozen pairs of long distance mail express trains do not stop at BGS. Due to unavailability of better train facilities, passengers are often compelled to board trains from Mokama (MKA), Hathidah, Barauni junction (BJU), Jamalpur Khagaria and Patna.

The major facilities available are waiting rooms, computerized reservation facility and vehicle parking. The vehicles are allowed to enter the station premises. The station also has STD/ISD/PCO telephone booth, toilets, tea stalls, fruit stall, dairy stall, meal stall and book stall. The station has total three platforms and are interconnected with two foot over bridges. Several electrified local passenger trains and express trains run from Barauni Junction to neighbouring destinations such as Katihar, Munger, Saharsa, Purnia, New Jalpaiguri among others.[2][3][4]

The Indian Railways has set up a Railway Station Development Corporation (RSDC) that is working to improve the major railway stations. In 1st phase RSDC has selected Begusarai and 04 other most important railway stations of ECR zone, including Muzaffarpur, Patna, Gaya. They will build and develop Restaurants, shopping areas and food plaza/courts etc. for commercial business and improving passenger amenities on these "World Class" Railway Stations. For this RSDC has already started the process and in coming days people will get World class facilities here.

Facilities

Major trains

• Saharsa–Amritsar Garib Rath Express
• Seemanchal Express
• Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express
• Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Kamakhya AC Express
• North East Express
• Capital Express
• Sikkim Mahananda Express
• Poorbiya Express
• Amrapali Express
• Kosi Express
• Saharsa–Amritsar Jan Sewa Express
• Lohit Express
• Amarnath Express
• Janhit Express
• New Tinsukia–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
• New Jalpaiguri–Sitamarhi Weekly Express
• Bandra Terminus–Saharsa Humsafar Express
• Saharsa–Patna Rajya Rani Express

Nearest stations

• Barauni Junction
• Samastipur Junction
• Khagaria Junction
• Rusera Ghat
• Saharsa Junction

References

External links

• Official website of Begusarai district

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