August 10, 2012

Shahganj Railway Junction


      Shahganj is a city in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh state. It is a major railway junction which comes under Lucknow Junction division of Northern Railway Zone. Shahganj Railway Junction is perched on Ayodhya-Jaunpur rail route. SHG is the station code of Shahganj. It has rail connectivity to Lucknow, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jaipur, Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Jhansi and many other cities of India. There are many places of interest which are easily accessible from Shahganj Junction. Jaunpur, Sarnath, Pratapgarh and Basti are some of them.
     Trains passing through Shahganj Railway Junction include Kurla- Gorakhpur exp, Azamgarh-Delhi Exp, Kolkata-Jammu Tawi exp, Dehradun-Howrah Exp, Varanasi Bareilly Exp, Muzaffarpur-Delhi Exp, Patna-Mathura Exp, Jodhpur-Varanasi Exp, Kanpur-Chhapra Exp, etc. State highway no 7 and 34 also connect Shahganj to other parts Uttar Pradesh, while Varanasi Airport serves to be closest airbase to Shahganj.

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