Barkakana Junction railway station, (station code BRKA), serves Barkakana and the surrounding coal mining areas in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It comes under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway zone.

In 1927, the Central India Coalfields Railway opened the Gomoh–Barkakana line. It was extended to Daltonganj in 1929. Later, these lines were amalgamated with East Indian Railway. In the same year (1927), Bengal Nagpur Railway opened the 116-kilometre (72 mi) Muri–Barkakana section to traffic. The 57 km-long Hazaribagh–Barkakana section was opened for passenger trains on 7 December 2016 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the presence of Chief Minister Raghubar Das

Barkakana–Garhwa, Barkakana–Danea and Barkakana–Ramgarh sections were electrified in 1996–97.

• Patna–Ranchi Vande Bharat Express
• Tatanagar–Patna Vande Bharat Express (one day in a week)
• Ranchi–New Delhi Garib Rath Express
• Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express (via Barkakana)
• Visakhapatnam–Banaras Express
• Ranchi–Varanasi Express
• Ranchi–Chopan Express
• Shaktipunj Express
• Tatanagar–Jammu Tawi Express
• Sambalpur–Jammu Tawi Express
• Palamu Express
• Howrah–Bhopal Weekly Express
• Santragachi–Ajmer Weekly Express
• Kolkata–Madar Express (Weekly Express)
• Ahmedabad–Kolkata Express (Weekly express)

And many more express, passenger and intercity train run through this station.

• Birsa Munda Airport (53 Km)
• Bokaro Airport (85 Km)
• Dhanbad Airport (130 Km)
• Sonari Airport (167 Km)

Preceding station	Indian Railways			Following station
Ramgarh Cantt towards ?		South Eastern Railway zone Muri–Barkakana line		Terminus
Argada towards ?		East Central Railway zone Gomoh–Barkakana line
		East Central Railway zone Barkakana–Koderma section via Hazaribagh
Sidhwar towards ?		East Central Railway zone Barkakana–Ranchi section under construction
Bhurkunda towards ?		East Central Railway zone Barkakana Sonnagar and Singrauli line