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Gaya Ji Junction is a railwayjunction station serving the city ofGaya Ji, the headquarters ofGaya district andMagadh Division in the Indian state ofBihar. Gaya Ji is in thePandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway division of theEast Central Railway zone.Grand Chord rail-line that connectsHowrah andNew Delhi passes through Gaya. It lies betweenPandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction on theDelhi side andDhanbad Junction on theHowrah side. It is located at24°48′13″N84°59′57″E / 24.80361°N 84.99917°E /24.80361; 84.99917.[1] It has an elevation of 117 metres (384 ft). Gaya Ji is connected with most of the states through rail network.
There are also two other broad-gauge train lines fromGaya Ji, one toPatna and the other toKiul Junction. The city has two major railway stations: Gaya Ji Junction &Manpur Junction. Gaya Ji is well connected withPatna,Jehanabad,Biharsharif,Rajgir,Islampur,Nawada,Dehri on sone through daily passenger and express train services.
Several years before theGrand Chord was built, a connection from theHowrah–Delhi main line to Gaya was developed in 1900 and the South Bihar Railway Company (operated by EIR) had laid a line fromLakhisarai to Gaya in 1879.[2] The Grand Chord was opened on 6 December 1906.[3]
In February 2012, theIndian Railways had planned to set up a Railway Station Development Corporation (RSDC) that will work on improving the major railway stations including Gaya Junction by building and developing Restaurants, shopping areas and food plaza for commercial business and improving passenger amenities.[4]
There are 10 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 under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.
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 inBihar after Patna and second largest in terms of platforms after Patna Jn. It is ajunction 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 likeDelhi,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 toPatna Junction via Bela, Chakand,Jehanabad, Makhdoompur.
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