Warisaliganj railway station is a major railway station in

Nawada district Nawada district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. Nawada is its administrative headquarters. The district is the easternmost district of the Magadh division, one of the nine administrative divisions of Bihar. Th ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

. Its code is WRS.

Line and location

The station lies on Tilaiya Junction–Luckeesarai Junction line of

East Central Railway zone The East Central Railway (abbreviated ECR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Hajipur and comprises Sonpur, Samastipur, Danapur, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, and Dhanbad divisions. History First set up on 8 S ...

which is a part of

Gaya–Kiul line The Gaya–Kiul line is a railway line connecting Gaya on the Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line and Kiul on the Howrah–Delhi main line both in the Indian state of Bihar. History Several years before the Grand Chord was built, a connection from th ...

Infrastructure

The station consists of three platforms and a rack point.

Importance

It is also one of the important rack point for freight Wagons for

Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tot ...

in the Nawada district.

Services

It serves

Warisaliganj Warisaliganj is a town and a nagar parishad in Nawada district in the Indian state of Bihar. History Warisaliganj, to the north of Nawada, was founded by Waris Ali khan, brother of Kamgar khan in Mayi family. Geography Warisaliganj is locat ...

town to the district headquarter Nawada and other districts like Sheikhpura, Lakhisarai and Gaya. The town is served by a direct daily train to Howrah and a weekly service to Guwahati via Bhagalpur. The state capital Patna can be reached through a stop-over at

Kiul Junction Kiul Junction railway station (station code: KIUL), is one of the major railway junctions in Danapur division of East Central Railway. Kiul is connected to metropolitan areas of India, by the Howrah–Delhi main line via Mugalsarai–Patna r ...

Gaya Junction Gaya Junction railway station is a junction station serving the city of Gaya, the headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh Division in the Indian state of Bihar. Gaya is in the Mughalsarai railway division of the East Central Railway zone. ...

from where rest of India is well connected. The following trains run from Warisaliganj railway station : * Gaya–Howrah Express * Gaya–Jamalpur Passenger (unreserved) * Gaya–Kiul Passenger (unreserved) * Gaya–Jhajha Fast Passenger (unreserved) * Gaya–Kamakhya Weekly Express * Rampurhat–Gaya Passenger (unreserved)

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Railway stations in Nawada district Danapur railway division Railway stations in India opened in 1879 {{Bihar-railstation-stub