Jaunpur Junction (station code JNU), also known as Bhandariya railway station is a railway station in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The station is part of the Northern Railway Lucknow Division and the Varanasi–Lucknow line via Jaunpur-Ayodhya.
It is also part of the Prayagraj–Jaunpur line and Aunrihar–Kerakat–Jaunpur line
- Jaunpur - Shahganj Ayodhya
- Jaunpur - Sultanpur
- Jaunpur - Janghai Pratapgarh
- Jaunpur - Varanasi
- Jaunpur - Aunrihar Ghazipur
- Jaunpur - Shahganj Azamgarh
- Jaunpur - Janghai Paryagraj
This station is an Adarsh category (NSG 3) in Northern Railway. This station is situated in northeast Jaunpur.
Nearby stations include Jaunpur City (JOP) and Zafarabad Junction (ZBD).
Jaunpur junction is a medium-revenue station, serving over 20,000 passengers and over 34 Mail Regular and 5 Passenger trains on a daily basis. It is under the administrative control of the Northern Railway zone's Lucknow railway division, and partially of the North Eastern Railway zone's Varanasi railway division.
Jaunpur Junction is well connected with many important cultural cites such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, Jammu, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, Raipur, Rameswaram, Haridwar, Tiruchirappalli, Indore, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi, Nagpur, Mathura, Vijayawada, Agra, Durg ,Tata,Kharagpur, etc. The station has 1 Overpass and 1 underpass facility. It also has multi facilities like unreserved class people waiting hall, SBI Bank, Public Library, Post Office, Police Station and Snack corners.
History
The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway opened the 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad-gauge line from Varanasi to Lucknow in 1872. The line was extended to Faizabad with the Faizabad loop. Then Jaunpur Junction was built.
The Curzon Bridge across the Ganges was opened in 1905 by the East Indian Railway Company and the 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad-gauge Allahabad–Faizabad line was possibly opened the same year. It was operated by the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway.
See also
- Varanasi Junction railway station
- Jaunpur City railway station
- Kirakat railway station
- Zafarabad Junction railway station