Harnaut railway station

Location
	Harnaut railway station Location in Bihar

Harnaut Railway Station
Harnaut Railway Station
Bakhtiyarpur; Barh; Rajgir
Construction
Structure type	Standard (on-ground station)
Parking	Available
Accessible
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	HRT
Zone(s)	East Central Railway zone
Division(s)	DanapurTooltip Danapur railway division
History
Opened	1903; 121 years ago
Rebuilt	2003; 21 years ago
Electrified	2016–2017
Passengers
2015	≈ 5.5 lakh per year
Services
East Central Railway
Location
Location
	Harnaut railway station Location in Bihar

Bakhtiyarpur–Tilaiya line

Legend

km

on
Howrah–Delhi main line

0

Bakhtiyarpur

3

Karnauti Halt

Falgu River

7

Kharuara Halt

Mokama

Carriage Repair

Workshop, Harnaut

11

Harnaut

NH 431

14

Murhari Halt

16

Wena

18

Imlibigha Halt

SH 78

19

Rahui Road

20

Ambapendarpur Halt

21

Dekpura Halt

Panchane River

27

Sohsarai

Neora-Sheikhpura line to Neora

30

Bihar Sharif

NH 33

Neora–Sheikhpura line to Sheikhpura

to Nawada (planned)

to Jehanabad (planned)

34

Tungi (Halt)

to Nawada (planned)

NH 20

36

Pawapuri Road

Panchane River

37

Deepnagar Halt

42

Nalanda

44

47

49

51

NH 120

54

Rajgir

SH 71

61

Nekpur

Fatuha–Tilaiya line to Fatuha

71

Natesar

to Gaya Under construction

78

Jethian

82

Sarsoo

Dhadhar River

90

Oro Jagdishpur

94

Mohamadpur

96

Hisua

NH 120

Gaya–Kiul line to Kiul

100

Tilaiya

Gaya–Kiul line to Gaya

107

Narhat

115

Laundh

123

Kheraundh

to Koderma (Under construction)

Harnaut station is a railway station in India. It is a station in the city of

Nalanda

. Its service recording traffic of more than 1.5k passengers, and more than 25 trains per day. The Harnaut station is connected to most of the major cities in India by the railway network. Harnaut has well connected trains running frequently to

Bhagalpur railway station, and Kiul Junction

through daily passenger and express train services.

History

Bakhtiyarpur Bihar Light Railway was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm)-wide narrow-gauge railway laid by Martin's Light Railways from Bakhtiarpur to Bihar Sharif in 1903 and extended to Rajgir in 1911. It was taken over by the local district board in 1950, nationalised in 1962 and converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in).

The broad-gauge line was extended from Rajgir to Tilaiya and opened in 2010. This line will transport coal from the Kodarma–Hazaribagh coal belt for Barh Super Thermal Power Station via Harnaut station.

Structure

Facilities

Harnaut–Mokama section

Legend

km

to Rajgir and Gaya

0

Harnaut

Carriage Repair Workshop

Harnaut

Howrah–Delhi main line

to Patna

8

Karnauti (halt)

12

Jai prakash mahuli (halt)

15

Atlmal gola

23

Barh

Barh Super Thermal

Power Station

33

Punarkh

42

Mor

50

Mokama

Mokama–Barauni section

to
Howrah

The major facilities available are waiting rooms, retiring room, computerised reservation facility, a reservation counter, and vehicle parking.^[1] The vehicles are not allowed to enter the station premises. There are both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food options, a tea stall, a book stall, a post and telegraphic office and Government Railway police (G.R.P.) office. Automatic ticket vending machines has been installed soon to reduce the wait for train tickets on the station.

Platform

Station platform Layout

West	Platform #1
	Train lines（Line 1） Train lines（Line 2）
	Platform #2 Platform #3
	Train lines (Line 3) Train lines (Line 4)
East	Platform #4
	CRW, Harnaut

There are four platforms in the Harnaut railway station. The platforms are interconnected with

foot overbridge

. It has two foot overbridges, the 2nd overbridge is under construction. 4th platform under construction.

Trains

Harnaut railway station is a major station of the East Central Railways. Several local passenger trains also run from Harnaut to neighbouring destinations on frequent intervals. The following table lists all the trains passing from Harnaut station: (As of April 2010^[update])

**Passing trains**
Train no.	Train type	From	To	Name
53229	Passenger	Rajgir	Danapur	Rajgir–Danapur Passenger
12391	Superfast	Rajgir	New Delhi	Shramjeevi Superfast Express
73253	DEMU	Rajgir	Bakhtiyarpur	Rajgir–Bakhtiyarpur DEMU
73258	DEMU	Gaya	Bakhtiyarpur	Gaya–Bakhtiyarpur DEMU
53232	Passenger	Danapur	Tilaiya	Danapur–Tilaiya Passenger
53044	Express	Rajgir	Howrah	Howrah–Rajgir Fast Passenger
13233	Express	Rajgir	Danapur	Rajgriha Express
03207	DEMU	Harnaut	Bakhtiyarpur	*Harnaut–Bakhtiyarpur DEMU
73255	Passenger	Rajgir	Bakhtiyarpur	Rajgir–Bakhtiyarpur Passenger
23040	Express	Rajgir	Howrah	Rajgir–Howrah Composite Express
73254	DEMU	Bakhtiyarpur	Rajgir	Bakhtiyarpur–Rajgir DEMU
15109	Superfast	Rajgir	Varanasi	Budhpurnima Express
13039	Express	Howrah	Rajgir	Howrah–Delhi Janata Express

Development

The Indian Railways had planned to set up a Railway Station Development Corporation (RSDC) that will work on improving the major railway stations as Harnaut railway station by building and developing restaurants, shopping areas and food plazas for commercial business and improving passenger amenities. Railway planned to make station as A grade category. As railway budget a new railway track between Harnaut and Barh for coal transportation in Barh Super Thermal Power Station and electrification Bakhtiyarpur–Tilaiya line under construction.4th platform also under construction. After determining the railway stations that need to be good-class station by constructing well. A phased revamping has begun. Deputy chief traffic manager announced that the pending work at the railway tracks and platforms, presently under construction, will be sped up.^{[citation needed]} To assist passengers, especially the elderly, two foot overbridges may be constructed.