Sagauli Junction railway station

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Sagauli Junction railway station
Indian Railways station
General information
LocationNH 28, Sagauli, East Champaran district, Bihar
India
Coordinates26°45′31″N 84°44′21″E / 26.7587°N 84.7393°E / 26.7587; 84.7393
Elevation75 metres (246 ft)
Owned byIndian Railways
Operated byEast Central Railway
Line(s) (Under Construction)
Platforms2
Tracks4
ConnectionsAuto stand auto rickshaw
Construction
Structure typeStandard (on-ground station)
ParkingYes (Only Auto)
Bicycle facilitiesNo
Other information
StatusActive
Station codeSGL
Zone(s) East Central Railway
Division(s) Samastipur
History
ElectrifiedYes
Passengers
30000 Daily
Location
Sagauli Junction railway station is located in India
Sagauli Junction railway station
Sagauli Junction railway station
Location within India
Sagauli Junction railway station is located in Bihar
Sagauli Junction railway station
Sagauli Junction railway station
Sagauli Junction railway station (Bihar)

Sagauli Junction railway station is a junction railway station in East Champaran district, Bihar. Its code is SGL.[1] It is on the Delhi–Muzaffarpur–Gorakhpur main line

Sagauli is connected to several cities in Bihar with daily passenger trains. There are multiple daily connections to Muzaffarpur, Raxaul, and Sitamarhi and daily connections to Bagaha, Bettiah, Hajipur, Samastipur, Motihari and Narkatiaganj.

Daily express trains connect to Delhi with stops in major cities in Uttar Pradesh including Gorakhpur and Bareilly. Kolkata is also connected by a daily express train.

There are also direct trains to Lucknow and Varanasi with stops in several towns in Uttar Pradesh. Chhapra, Patna, Jabalpur, Mumbai, Darbhanga, Barauni, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Ranchi, Rourkela, Bilaspur, Raipur and Nagpur are also connected by weekly or multiple weekly trains.

Delhi is connected via Satyagrah Express and Sadbhawna Express. Earlier, all tracks were metre gauge but most have been converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. After the completion of the gauge conversion from Darbhanga to Sagauli via Sitamarhi, another broad-gauge route to Sagauli became available from March 2014.

Trains[edit]

Samastipur is the divisional headquarters; several local passenger trains and express trains run from Sagauli to neighbouring destinations. List of some important trains that stop at Sagauli:Departures from SGL/Sagauli Junction.

Connectivity[edit]

There are total 49 trains available, Train Departures ECR/East Central Zone – Railway Enquiry.which connect to some major cities of India viz., Amritsar, Bihar (Darbhanga, Katihar, Muzaffarpur, Narkatiaganj, Patliputra, Raxaul & Saharsa), Dehradun, Delhi (Anand Vihar), Guwahati, Gujarat (Ahmedabad & Porbandar), Howrah (Kolkata), Jaipur, Jammu, Mumbai (Bandra & LTT) and Uttar Pradesh (Bareilly, Kanpur, Lucknow & Manduadih).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "SGL/Sagauli Junction". India Rail Info.