Guwahati Junction railway station
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Guwahati railway station (Station code: GHY) is located in the heart of the city of Guwahati, Assam. It is the first fully solar-operated railway station in India. It has been rated as A1-category station. Just behind the Guwahati Railway Station is the
Assam State Transport Corporation Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to ...
Bus Terminal. An ISO-certified railway station, Guwahati Railway Station has been ranked 21 in cleanliness among the A1-category railway stations in India. To reduce the traffic on the Guwahati junction, there is another railway station in the city at Maligaon, the
Kamakhya railway station Kamakhya Junction railway station is a railway junction station located at Maligaon in Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam. Location The station lies near to the headquarters of Northeast Frontier Railway. It is the second-largest railway ...
. Almost all newly introduced trains run from the Kamakhya Jn. railway station only. There were plans to make a new railway station at Beltola (in the southern part of Guwahati) to introduce trains towards Shillong, Meghalaya. Plans have not been finalized and are still in progress. Guwahati railway station became the first railway station to run entirely on solar-power. The solar panel installation project was commissioned in April 2017. In recent years the railway station got a 100 feet high Tri colour. It is the tallest tricolour among any railway stations in north east India.


Services for rolling stock

The station has a diesel locomotive shed with room for 80 locomotives. The sheds accommodate
WDM-3D The Indian locomotive class WDM-3D is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in 2003 by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), Varanasi for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Diesel (D), Mixed traffic (M) engi ...
, WDG-4D, WDG-4 and WDS class locomotives. The shed now also accommodates WDP-4D locomotives. The station has a coach maintenance complex.


Station facilities

The station is the divisional headquarters for the Northeast Frontier Railway.It became the first ever Railway station in the Indian Railways to get an ISO certification from the National Green Tribunal for "providing passenger amenities in a clean and green environment". The station has seven platforms. It serves the long-distance trains of NFR. Google along with RailWire provided Free high speed Wifi until 2020. However, RailTel (RailWire's parent company) has confirmed that it will continue to provide free Wifi Internet services. Following services available in Guwahati Railway Station: * 03 (02 Bedded) Delux AC Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker/Charging point * 02 (02 Bedded) AC Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker * 02 (05 Bedded) Non AC Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker * 02 (02 Bedded) Non Ac Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker * 01 (12 Bedded) Non AC Dormitory with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker * Reserve VIP Lounge * Chemist Stall * High Speed Google Railwire Free Wi-Fi service * Upper Class/Lower Class Waiting Rooms having Free Wi-Fi/AC/TV/Charging points/Drinking water & separate Ladies/Gents Washrooms * Veg/Non Veg Food Court * Cafeteria * FOB with 10X Escalators/Elevators 4X * CCTV Surveillance * Cloak Room


Major Trains

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Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express ''Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express'' is one of the premier train in the exclusive fleet of Rajdhani Expresses of Indian Railways. It connects in Delhi and in Assam. History * The first version of this train was inaugurated on 26 October 1996 as G ...
* Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express *
Avadh Assam Express The 15909 / 15910 ''Avadh Assam Express'' is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways – Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between Dibrugarh railway station of Dibrugarh, Assam and Lalgarh Junction of Bikaner, Rajasthan in Ind ...
* Agartala Rajdhani Express * Bangalore Humsafar Express * Aronai Superfast Express * Naharlagun Shatabdi Express * Dibrugarh Shatabdi Express *
Saraighat Express The 12345 /12346 ''Saraighat Express'' is a daily Superfast Express trains in India, Superfast train which runs between Howrah Junction, Howrah, Kolkata (West Bengal) and (Assam), via in Siliguri, North Bengal. It is one of the premium train ...
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Kamrup Express The ''Kamrup Express'' is a daily Express train which connects Howrah (Kolkata) in West Bengal with Dibrugarh, a major town in upper Assam. Originally the train ran between Howrah and Guwahati (which is the district headquarters of Kamrup dis ...
* Kolkata Garib Rath Express *
Amarnath Express The 15653 / 54 Guwahati–Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways - Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between Guwahati and Jammu Tawi in India. It operates as train number 15653 from Guwahati to Jam ...
* Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Express * Kaziranga Superfast Express * Dwarka Express *
Lohit Express The 15651 / 52 Guwahati–Jammu Tawi Lohit Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways – Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between & in India. It operates as train number 15651 from Guwahati to Jammu Tawi and as train ...
* Guwahati-Secunderabad Express * Bikaner-Guwahati Express * Silchar-Coimbatore Express * Dibrugarh-Chandigarh Express * Dibrugarh-Amritsar Express * Kanchanjunga Express * Tripura Sundari Express * Dibrugarh - Mumbai LTT Express * Barmer–Guwahati Express * New Tinsukia SMVT Bengaluru Express * New Tinsukia-Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express * Agartala Deoghar Express


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External links

* {{Adjacent stations, noclear=y , system=Indian Railways , line=Northeast Frontier Railway zone, left=Kamakhya Junction, right=, type= Barauni–Guwahati line , line2=Northeast Frontier Railway zone, left2=, right2=Lumding Junction, type2=
Guwahati–Lumding section The Guwahati–Lumding section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting and . The long railway line operates in the Indian state of Assam. It is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. History In the pre-partition days, Assa ...
Railway stations in Guwahati Railway junction stations in Assam Lumding railway division Railway stations in India opened in 1900 1900 establishments in India Indian Railway A1 Category Stations