Basti railway station

26°48′55″N 82°46′09″E / 26.8154°N 82.7692°E / 26.8154; 82.7692Elevation101 metres (331 ft)Owned byIndian RailwaysOperated byNorth Eastern RailwayLine(s)Broad GaugePlatforms5Tracks7ConnectionsAuto standConstructionStructure typeStandard (on-ground station)ParkingYesBicycle facilitiesYesOther informationStatusDouble electric lineStation codeBST Zone(s) North Eastern Railway Division(s) Lucknow NERHistoryOpened1842^{[citation needed]}Rebuiltredevelopment stationElectrifiedYesPassengersDaily1.5 lakh daily Services A1 class Location

Basti railway station is a main railway station in Basti district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is BST. It serves Basti city. The station consists of seven platforms.^[1]

It is a very important railway station of North Eastern Railway zone. The main line connecting Lucknow with Gorakhpur and places in Bihar and Assam in the east passes through the south of the district. It has various facilities like escalator, elevator, free wifi, automatic ticket vending machines, food stall, parking, toilet, water supply 24 hours, train information display board, waiting hall, etc. The station offer Class A-1 station facilities. This station is a first electrified station of North eastern Railway. This station is very main station between Gorakhpur-barabanki-Aishbag line. There is a daily Intercity express between Gorakhpur and Lucknow. The station is well connected to Delhi, Mumbai, Pataliputra, Lucknow, Ajmer, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Varanasi, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Jammu, Howrah, Jaipur.

Important trains are Vande Bharat, Gorakhdham Express, Vaishali Express, Raptisagar Express, Gorakhpur–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express, Gorakhpur–Anand Vihar Terminal Humsafar Express (via Basti), Satyagrah Express, Garib Rath, Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Weekly Express, Antyodaya Express, Poorbiya express, Gorakhpur Vande bharat, Darbhanga Amrit bharat, and many more. Manwar Sangam Express & GKP–BST–GKP Special train originates and terminates at Basti . The Basti district is served by 6 local railway stations other than Basti railway station, namely, Babhnan(BV), Tinich, Gaur, Govind Nagar, Orwara, & Munderwa, among them Babhnan railway station (BV) is second important and Biggest railway station after Basti in Basti District.^[2]

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