Varanasi railway division is one of the three railway divisions under North Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 1 May 1969 and its headquarter is located at Varanasi in the state of Uttar Pradesh of India.[1]

Izzatnagar railway division (at Bareilly City) and Lucknow NER railway division are the other two railway divisions under NER Zone headquartered at Gorakhpur.[2][3]

List of railway stations

The list includes the stations under the Varanasi railway division and their station category.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Category of station No. of stations Names of stations
A-1 Category 3 Chhapra Junction,

Mau Junction,Varanasi Junction[citation needed]

A Category 5 Azamgarh, Ballia, Belthara Road, Deoria Sadar, Siwan Junction
B Category 7 Bhatni Junction, Ghazipur City, Khorasan Road, Mairwa, Banaras, Salempur and Suremanpur
C Category
(Suburban station) 		0 -
D Category 27 Aunrihar Junction, Varanasi City, Indara Junction, Thawe Junction, Yusufpur
E Category 81 Ahimanpur, Gopalganj, Ratansarai (Barauli), Phephna Junction
F Category
Halt Station 		82 Ghazipur Ghat, Kerakat Railway Station
Total 204 -

Stations closed for Passengers -

References

  1. ^ "Varanasi Division" (PDF). North Eastern Railway. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Zones and their Divisions in Indian Railways" (PDF). Indian Railways. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Varanasi Railway Division". Railway Board. North Eastern Railway zone. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Statement showing Category-wise No.of stations in IR based on Pass. earning of 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  5. ^ "PASSENGER AMENITIES - CRITERIA= For Categorisation Of Stations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  6. ^ "Varanasi railway division - Division at a Glance". Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. ^ "V aranasi Division N.E. Railway Commercial" (PDF). Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Commercial Varanasi Division at a Glance: Commercial- Varanasi Division at a Glance-Position as on 31.10.2014" (PDF). Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. ^ "Varanasi railway division stations" (PDF). North East Railway Zone. Retrieved 20 December 2020.


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