| Gaya Junction | |
| Type: | Indian Railways junction station |
| Style: | Indian Railways |
| Address: | Gaya, Gaya district, Bihar |
| Country: | India |
| Coordinates: | 24.8033°N 84.9994°W |
| Elevation: | 117m (384feet) |
| Line: | Grand Chord Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line Howrah–Prayagraj–Mumbai line Asansol–Gaya section Gaya–Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction section Patna–Gaya line Gaya–Kiul line |
| Platform: | 9+1(under construction) |
| Tracks: | 14 |
| Parking: | Available |
| Baggage Check: | Available |
| Entrances: | 2--> |
| Electrified: | Yes |
| Owned: | Indian Railways |
| Operator: | East Central Railway zone |
| Status: | Functional |
| Former: | East Indian Railway Company Eastern Railway zone |
| Map Type: | India Bihar |
| Map Dot Label: | Gaya Junction |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Map State: | hide |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map |
Gaya Junction railway station is a junction station serving the city of Gaya, the headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh Division in the Indian state of Bihar. Gaya is in the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway division of the East Central Railway zone. Grand Chord rail-line that connects Howrah and New Delhi passes through Gaya. It lies between on the Delhi side and on the side. It is located at .[1] It has an elevation of 117m (384feet). Gaya is connected with most of the states through rail network. Very few trains do-not stop here- sealdah duranto, bhubaneswar duranto, jharkhand sampark kranti and Odisha sampark kranti. There are also two other broad-gauge train lines from Gaya, one to Patna and the other to . The city has two major railway stations: Gaya Junction & Manpur Junction. Gaya is well connected with Patna, Jehanabad, Biharsharif, Rajgir, Islampur, Nawada, Dehri on sone through daily passenger and express train services.
Several years before the Grand Chord was built, a connection from the Howrah–Delhi main line to Gaya was developed in 1900 and the South Bihar Railway Company (operated by EIR) had laid a line from Lakhisarai to Gaya in 1879.[2] The Grand Chord was opened on 6 December 1906.[3]
There are 9 platforms in the Gaya Junction which are from platform 1 to 7 and 1A & 1B. There is 1 Pilgrim Platform also, where the pilgrim train stop. The platforms are interconnected with foot overbridges (FOB). It has three foot overbridge, the station houses all the major facilities like waiting rooms, computerized reservation facility, food plaza, dormitory, retiring rooms, cafeteria, bookshop, etc.[5] Existing facilities are being revamped for developing it as model station.
Gaya Junction's location on the Delhi–Kolkata Grand chord route, makes it served by numerous express and superfast trains from all over the country. Gaya Junction is the second most important railway station in Bihar after Patna and second largest in terms of platforms after Patna Jn. It is a junction and is connected to all the major cities such as New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai through important broad-gauge routes (direct trains). Now it is also directly connected to Guwahati (N-E India). There is a direct train
There are direct trains from Gaya to important stations in India like Delhi, Kolkata, Dhanbad, Chennai, Kamakhya–Guwahati, Ranchi, Patna,Parasnath(Shikharji), Bokaro, Varanasi, Lucknow, Kota, Kanpur, Allahabad, Agra, Bareilly, Mathura, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Indore, Nagpur, Mumbai, Pune, Puri, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Dehradun, Kalka, Jammu, Gwalior, Dehradun, Ranchi, Jamshedpur (Tatanagar), Bhuvaneshwar, etc. Several electrified local passenger trains also run from Gaya to neighbouring destinations at regular intervals.[6] [7] Gaya Patna daily bond passenger train also plays a very essential role in the development of Bihar. The train starts from Gaya Junction to Patna Junction via Bela, Chakand, Jehanabad, Makhdoompur.