Know about Lucknow Railway Station

Lucknow is the capital of the state Uttar Pradesh in India. It is believed that this name has been derived from the word Lakshman, the younger brother of Lord Rama, an incarnation in Treta Yuga as per belief and recorded writings in Hindu epics; who was asked by Rama, king of Ayodhya, to establish a place near Ayodhya and so he came to this place full of woods at that time and named Lakhanpur. Even today there is a place known as Lakshman Teela in Lucknow, perhaps the site and the place where Lakshman might have come and built his empire, which somehow or the other relates with the ancient history very well and worth believing.

Lucknow is situated in the very heart of the famous Gangetic Plain, surrounded by towns and villages growing one of the most delicious fruits available on this earth mango near Malihabad in Kakori. The culture of formality is very well known in this city with full of regards as well as respect in the words used by the people for others known as tehzeeb.

There are many railway stations here, served by the Indian Railways, at various parts of the city. At Charbagh we have the main railway station known as Lucknow Railway Station. At Lucknow, Northern Railway (NR) and North Eastern Railway(NER) both play important role, having Lucknow ( the code –LKO) and Lucknow Junction( the code- LJN) in their share or we can say the main terminal and the second terminal respectively. Being capital city of one of the largest states of India, the Lucknow Railway Station is a major junction having a great connection and links with all or most of the major cities of its state as well as country.

It has direct links with Allahabad, Ahmedabad, Agra, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Mumbai, Pune, Jaunpur, Indore, New Delhi, Varanasi, Mughalsarai, Gwalior and so many, difficult to name here in such a small space and facility available.

There are thirteen railway stations at Lucknow, naming –Alamnagar, Amausi, Aishbagh Junction, Badshahnagar, Dilkusha, Daliganj, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow City, Malhaur, Manak Nagar, Mohibullapur, Transport Nagar and Utretia.

All these railway stations, said in the previous paragraph, are very well connected with each other and are within the city limits via road links as well as public road transport system. Other suburban stations are including Bakshi Ka Talab and Kakori. Lucknow –Kanpur Suburban Railway also covers many other railway stations.

Meter gauge services are now originating from Aishbagh and connecting Lucknow City, Daliganj as well as Mohibullapur. Broad gauge is connecting all other railway stations except Mohibullapur. The Lucknow-Kanpur Suburb Railway serves daily commuters up and down every day, while a few of the trains run from Barabanki City also.

Metro and Mono Rail Services are likely to come in operation very shortly. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has been given the responsibility for this high capacity mass transit system operate at an earliest efficiently.

The existing railway station building was erected somewhere in the year 1926. It has beautiful domes and minarets of Saracan Design built in by the red bricks. There are wide and long frontages of verandahs in an architectonic ideas resembling with the Mughal Arches.

As far as the amenities for the passengers are concerned at the railway station, retiring rooms, dormitories, tourist information center, post and telegraph services, computer reservation facilities, refreshing rooms serving both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes,tea stalls, book stalls and Government Railway Police force are also available for 24X7.

Information about Allahabad Railway Station

Allahabad is one of the most famous city in the Hindu Religion for there is Prayag,where three main rivers meet at one point known as Sangam and once in every twelve years there takes place a holy festival known as Maha Kumbh in which hundreds of thousands of people turn up from all over the world and they take dips in the Ganges or most precisely at Sangam, where rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati meet, with a faith that their evils and bad deeds would be washed off and they will be entitled to go to heaven after their death, so as to say they will attain Moksh that is salvation meaning they will be free from coming and going from this mortal world.

Would you like to know what does Allahabad mean in the Persian language? Its quite interesting. It means ‘settled by God’. Originally it was known as Prayag. In Sanskrit it means ‘Place of Sacrifice’. It is situated at Triveni. Tri means three symbolically standing for three rivers flowing in this ancient city.

This city is famous for many good reasons like-political, spiritual, educational, cultural, historical and so on.

To fulfil all the aforesaid reasons, feelings, accomplishments, goals etc the railways play an important role.

Allahabad, connected to most of the major parts of India directly by the Indian Railways, happens to be the headquarters of the North Central Railway Zone. There are eight railway stations in Allahabad and they are Allahabad City also known as Rambagh, Allahabad Junction, Bamrauli, Daraganj, Naini Junction, Prayag, Prayag Ghat and Subedar Ganj.

There are many bridges on the rivers Ganges as well as Yamuna so as to connect this city with its suburbs to facilitate the tourists and pilgrimages coming by trains or buses or air to reach their destinations easily, comfortably and economically also.

We can understand the importance, need and necessity of the railway tracks available at Allahabad which had its share of bringing in a part of 70 million people, who gathered on the pious soil of Prayag or Triveni or Sangam, whatever you may call this place as per your shraddha and belief , on the occasion of Maha Kumbh Festival/Mela as discussed earlier in the first para, in the year 2007. This gathering was about five years earlier and that was the recorded highest human gathering in the world on any occasion anywhere. Such is the importance of the railways. It is the most economical, comfortable, safe and enjoyable journey one can have.

The railway tracks at Allahabad are very well connected to mostly all the major cities of India, naming a few, like Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Chennai, Cuttack, Delhi, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai etc.

Let us know something about Railway Recruitment Board, Allahabad. Somewhere in 1942 a service commission was established with a chairman and a few members for recruiting subordinate staff on then known to be as North West Railway. The progress and development was looked into and on the basis of the reviews collected, somewhere in 1945 under the Railway Board service commissions at Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Lucknow were set up. In 1985 Railway Service Commissions were renamed as to be Railway Recruitment Board (RRBs).

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