Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway division, earlier known as Mughalsarai railway division, is one of the five railway divisions under East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 5 November 1951 and its headquarter is located at

Mughalsarai Mughalsarai (; English: '' Mughal Tavern''), officially known as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar, is a city and a municipal board in the Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh. Located around from Varanasi, it is an important railway junction ...

in the state of Uttar Pradesh of India.

Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction, formerly known as Mughalsarai Junction, (station code: DDU, old code MGS) is a railway station in the town of Mughalsarai in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The station contains the largest railway mars ...

and Gaya Junction are most busiest station in term of passenger then followed by Dehri-on-Sone, Anugrah Narayan Road and Sasaram . This station holds record for most number of stoppage of Rajdhani Express trains in India. Danapur railway division,

Dhanbad railway division Dhanbad railway division is one of the five railway divisions under East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. It stands No.1 in revenue earning among all the divisions in Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 5 November 1951 an ...

, Samastipur railway division, and

Sonpur railway division Sonpur railway division is one of the five railway divisions under East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. History Sonpur division was established on 21 Oct. 1978 in North Eastern Railway zone. The ECR zone came into existence on 8 Se ...

are the other railway divisions under ECR Zone headquartered at

Hajipur Hajipur (, ) is the headquarters and largest city of Vaishali district of the state of Bihar in India. Hajipur is the 16th most populous city of Bihar, besides being the second-fastest developing city, next to Patna. It had a total population ...

. The official name was changed from Mughalsarai railway division to Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway division on 19 January 2020 in honour of

Jan Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the pol ...

party leader

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an Indian politician, proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

whose dead body was found near the railway station on 11 February 1968. Upadhayay was travelling by train from Lucknow to Patna. The official name of Mughalsarai Junction was changed to Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction in 2018.

List of railway stations and towns

The list includes the stations under the Mughalsarai railway division and their station category. Stations closed for Passengers -

References

Divisions of Indian Railways 1951 establishments in Uttar Pradesh * Transport in Mughalsarai {{India-rail-transport-stub