Padrauna railway station | |
Type: | Regional rail station |
Style: | Indian Railways |
Address: | Station Road, Padrauna, Uttar Pradesh |
Country: | India |
Elevation: | 89m (292feet) |
Line: | Gorakhpur–Siwan(Via Thawe) |
Other: | Taxi stand |
Structure: | Standard (on ground station) |
Platform: | 2 |
Tracks: | 3 |
Parking: | Yes |
Bicycle: | NO |
Accessible: | Yes |
Owned: | Indian Railways |
Operator: | North Eastern Railway |
Status: | Functioning |
Former: | Bengal and North Western Railway Northern Railway |
Map Type: | India Uttar Pradesh |
Map Dot Label: | Padrauna railway station |
Map Size: | 280 |
Padrauna railway station is on the Gorakhpur–Thawe line. It is about 77 km from Gorakhpur railway station and is situated towards its north-eastern part. It is situated about 20 km from Kushinagar, an international tourist and religious spot for Buddhists. It serves Padrauna city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Padrauna railway station is at an elevation of 89m (292feet) and was assigned the code – POU.[1] Padrauna railway station is one of the important railway station of kushinagar district because of being the district headquarter.
Bengal and North Western Railway constructed the 790NaN0 long -wide metre-gauge line from Siwan to Kaptanganj in 1907.[2]
The Kaptanganj–Thawe section was converted to broad gauge in 2011.[3]
Padrauna railway station handles around 18,000 passengers every day.[4]