Kanpur Anwarganj Railway Station
Structure and layout
It has three platforms. It was constructed during the British Raj. It has one big clock on its main building. It is on the Farrukhabad–Kanpur line. Until 2006 it was a metre-gauge station. In 2006 Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav reopened the line as a broad-gauge railway line towards Lucknow. The first station superintendent was Mr. V.N. Pandey. In 2008 a broad-gauge line opened towards Mathura too.
Services
Kanpur Anwarganj serves trains of Lucknow–Kanpur Suburban Railway to reduce pressure on Kanpur Central. Around 45 trains pass through the station. Some MEMU trains start from here. Kanpur Anwarganj is now linked with some new stations like New Delhi, Mathura, Agra, Jaipur, Gorakhpur, Chapra, Patna, Kolkata, etc. Now Kanpur Anwarganj is one of the main railway stations on the route to Rajasthan and Eastern India.
Trains originating
| Train number |
Train name | Arrival | Departure | Destination/ Origin |
Days | Platform no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5003 | Chauri Chaura Express | — | 16:45 | Gorakhpur | Daily | 1 |
| 5004 | Chauri Chaura Express | 12:10 | — | Gorakhpur Junction | Daily | 1 |
| 8191 | Utsarg Express | 09:45 | — | Chhapra | Daily | 3 |
| 8192 | Utsarg Express | — | 16:25 | Chhapra | Daily | 3 |
See also
References
- ^ "Kanpur Anwarganj Railway Station Trains Schedule". Goibibo. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ "Yahoo Search - Web Search".
