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{{Short description|Railway station in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox station
| name = [[File:Indian_Railways_Suburban_Railway_Logo.svg|50px]] {{font color|blue|Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction}}
| native_name = <hr/>Mughalsarai Junction
| native_name_lang =
| style = Indian Railways
| type = Inter-city and regional rail station
| image = Mughalsarai_Junction_entrance.jpg
| image_size =
| image_caption = Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Junction entrance
| address = [[Mughalsarai]] 232101, [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| country = India
| coordinates = {{Coord|25.2767|N|83.1173|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| elevation = {{convert|79.273|m|ft}}
| line = [[Howrah–Delhi main line]], [[Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line]], [[Howrah–Prayagraj–Mumbai line]], [[Gaya–Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction section]], [[Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction – Kanpur section]], [[Grand Chord]], [[Patna–Mughalsarai section]]
| other = Auto stand, taxi stand
| structure = Standard on ground
| platform = 8
| tracks = 23
| parking = Yes
| bicycle = Yes
| accessible = 
| opened = {{start date and age|df=yes|1862}}
| closed = -
| rebuilt = -
| electrified = 1961–63
| code = {{Indian railway code
| code = DDU (formerly MGS)
| zone = [[East Central Railway zone]]
| division = {{rwd|Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya}}
}}
| owned = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[East Central Railway zone|East Central Railways]]
| status = Functioning
| former = Mughalsarai Junction
| passengers = 3 lakh per day
| pass_year =
| pass_percent =
| pass_system =
| map_type = India Uttar Pradesh#India
| map_dot_label = '''Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction'''
| map_caption = Location in [[Uttar Pradesh]]##Location in India
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-caption = Interactive map of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction
| mapframe-custom = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=300|frame-height=180|zoom=14|type=point|marker=rail}}
}}

'''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]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=After 156 years, Mughalsarai station renamed as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction: Know all about it |date=6 August 2018 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/mughalsarai-station-renamed-1306483-2018-08-06 |access-date=17 June 2021 |work=[[India Today]]|language=en}}</ref> The station contains the largest railway [[Classification yard|marshaling yard]] in Asia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-yard.html|title=[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: Freight Sheds and Marshalling Yards|publisher=IRFCA|access-date=7 January 2020}}</ref> This yard caters to around 450–500 trains in a month.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sood |first1=Jyotika |title=Railways to invest Rs3,000 crore to mechanize, automate yards |url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/JnG2X7OAKevymvTvGEthOK/Railways-to-invest-Rs3000-crore-to-mechanize-automate-yard.html|access-date=1 February 2021 |work=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |date=17 October 2017 |language=en}}</ref> All trains, including premium category [[Vande Bharat Express|Vande Bharat]], [[Rajdhani Express|Rajdhani]] and [[Duronto Express|Duronto]] trains, halt at this station, which makes it unique in the entire [[Indian Railways]] network. "Major installations in Mughalsarai include electric locomotive shed holding 147 locomotives, diesel locomotive shed holding 53 locomotives, wagon ROH shed, and a 169-bed divisional hospital."<ref name="1322119784210-Inf"/>

== The name of the station ==
On the evening of 10 February 1968, barely two months after he was elected president of the [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]], [[Deen Dayal Upadhyaya]] boarded the Sealdah Express from Lucknow to Patna. A few hours later, his body was found near a pole a few hundred feet from the end of a platform at Mughalsarai station. What followed was a long and involved investigation into what the Sangh and people insisted was a politically motivated murder by the ruling party. A CBI probe initiated by ruling party called it an accident; two men confessed to pushing him out of the train in a robbery attempt but were acquitted when it was found out to be made under duress; there was no sign of struggle or injury on Upadhyay's person. And conspiracy theories about power battles by Congress against the Sangh still abound. In 1992, then government of the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] attempted to rename Mughalsarai after Deen Dayal Upadhyaya<ref name="Noorani">{{cite book |last1=Noorani |first1=A.G. |title=Islam, South Asia and the Cold War |date=2012 |publisher=[[Tulika Books]]|url=https://thewire.in/history/deen-dayal-upadhyaya-death-mystery |access-date=5 June 2018|author1-link=A. G. Noorani}}</ref> However, the plan was shelved when [[Kalyan Singh]], the chief minister was forced to resign after an outbreak of violence in the state following the [[Babri Masjid demolition]].<ref name="rename">{{cite news |title=Mughalsarai station is now Deen Dayal Upadhyay station |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/mughalsarai-station-now-deen-dayal-upadhyay-1305833-2018-08-05 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=[[India Today]] |date=5 August 2018}}</ref> In 2017, the [[Government of India]] approved a fresh proposal forwarded by the [[Yogi Adityanath]]-led state government to rename the station.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mughalsarai railway station renamed after Deen Dayal Upadhyaya: A look at stations that have been renamed recently |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/here-are-the-railway-stations-which-have-been-renamed-recently-4781759/ |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=4 August 2017}}</ref> The station was officially renamed as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction on 4 June 2018.<ref name="rename"/>
[[File:Deendayalmughalsaraijn.png|thumb|New platform sign]]

== Electrification ==
The Gaya–Mughalsarai Junction section was electrified in 1961–63. Mughalsarai yard was electrified in 1963–65.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://irfca.org/docs/electrification-history.html |title=History of Electrification |publisher=IRFCA |access-date=19 June 2013}}</ref>

== Marshalling yard ==
Mughalsarai marshalling yard is the largest in Asia.<ref name="marshalling">{{cite web |url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-yard.html |title=Freight Sheds and Mashalling Yards |publisher=IRFCA |access-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127023453/https://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-yard.html |archive-date=27 January 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="1322119784210-Inf">{{cite web |url=http://www.ecr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1322119784210-Inf.pdf |title=General Information |publisher=East Central Railway |access-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525082717/ecr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1322119784210-Inf.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?210638 |title=Mughalsarai: Tracks to Nowhere |work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)]] |date=8 January 2001 |access-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006081354/http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?210638 |archive-date=6 October 2013 |first1=Arijit |last1=Barman |url-status=dead}}</ref> It is 12.5 km long and handles around 1,500 wagons daily. Wagon handling has come down after the railways discontinued piecemeal loading. At its peak, it handled 5,000 wagons a day. Of all divisions on Indian Railways, [[Mughalsarai railway division|Mughalsarai Division]] deals the most intense train operations – both Goods and Coaching. It is the bridge between Eastern part and Northern part of India. It closes the distance between pit head coal and power house, finished steel product to user, food grain and fertiliser to eastern part of the country and other raw material to industries. The operational efficiency of the division plays a pivotal role in determining the efficiency of the East Central Railway and any setback or inefficiency in operations on this division is a sensitive matter which affects the overall operations of the Railways. Because of its crucial importance, the Railway Board keeps a special watch on Mughalsarai division's operations.<ref name="marshalling" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://indianrailwayemployee.com/node/6016 |title=Marshalling Yards |publisher=Indian Railway Employee |access-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113012156/http://indianrailwayemployee.com/node/6016 |archive-date=13 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Sheds and workshops ==
Mughal Sarai diesel loco shed is home to [[Indian locomotive class WDM-2|WDM-2]], [[Indian locomotive class WDM-3A|WDM-3A]] and WDS-5 diesel locos. The diesel shed also holds 50 electric locos, all of them [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]]. There was a Northern Railway diesel loco shed at Mughalsarai. It was decommissioned in 2001. Mughalsarai electric loco shed can hold more than 150 electric locos. Amongst them are [[Indian locomotive class WAP-4|WAP-4]] and more than 70 [[Indian locomotive class WAG-7|WAG-7]] locos. The electric shed has recently started holding [[Indian locomotive class WAG-9|WAG-9]] locomotives.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

The largest wagon repair workshop of Indian Railways is located at Mughalsarai.<ref name="sheds">{{cite web|title=Sheds and workshops|url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shed.html|access-date=19 June 2013|publisher=IRFCA}}</ref>

== Passenger movement ==
Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railways.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_Avl.html |title=Indian Railways Passenger Reservation Enquiry |work=Availability in trains for Top 100 Booking Stations of Indian Railways |publisher=IRFCA |access-date=19 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140510115649/http://www.indianrail.gov.in/7days_Avl.html |archive-date=10 May 2014 }}</ref>

==Electric Loco Shed, DDU==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Serial No. !! Locomotive Class !! Horsepower !! Quantity
|-
| 1. || [[WAP-4]] || 5350 || 11
|-
| 2. || [[WAG-7]] || 5350 || 120
|-
| 3. || [[WAG-9]] || 6120 || 96
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of February 2026'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Electric Loco Holding |url=https://elocos.railnet.gov.in/Holding/holding.html |access-date=30 May 2025 |website=Railnet}}</ref>||227
|}

==Diesel Loco Shed, DDU==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Serial No. !! Locomotive Class !! Horsepower !! Quantity
|-
| 1. || [[WAG-7]] || 5350 || 83
|-
| 2. || [[WDG-3A]] || 3100 || 4
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Total Locomotives Active as of February 2026'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) |url=https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,304,366,541,710,717 |access-date=30 May 2025}}</ref><ref name=":0" />||87
|}

== Amenities ==
Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction railway station has 2 AC rooms, 4 non-AC retiring rooms, and a ten-bedded non-AC dormitory. It has a food plaza and a ‘Jan Aahar’ (affordable food) facility. The station has ATMs of nationalised banks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1327473148418-Organizational%20Information-JAN-12.pdf |title=Mughalsarai Division, Commercial Department |publisher=Indian Railways |access-date=19 June 2013}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="180">
File:Platform 4 and 5 of Mughalsarai Junction from flyover.jpg|Platform 4 and 5 of Mughalsarai Junction from flyover
File:Mughalsarai Junction from flyover 01.jpg|A view of Mughalsarai Junction as seen from flyover.
File:Mughalsarai Station 2.jpg|Inside Mughalsarai Junction station
File:Platform 7 of Mughalsarai Junction, India.jpg|Platform 7 of Mughalsarai Junction.
File:Mugal-sarai-l.jpg|Mughalsarai Junction board.
File:Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction board.jpg|Board of showing the new name of the station: "Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction"
File:Local Train on Platform 5 of Mughalsarai Junction.jpg|Local Train on Platform 5 of Mughalsarai Junction.
File:Food Track at Mughalsarai Junction platform 6.jpg|Food Track at Mughalsarai Junction platform 6
File:Upper Class waiting room at Platform 6 of Mughalsarai Junction, India.jpg|Upper Class waiting room at Platform 6 of Mughalsarai Junction
File:Mughalsarai junction.jpg
</gallery>

==See also==
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* [[Varanasi Junction railway station]]
* [[Varanasi City railway station]]
* [[Kashi railway station]]
* [[Banaras railway station]]
* [[Kerakat railway station]]
* [[Gaya Junction railway station]]
* [[Dhanbad Junction railway station]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category-inline}}
* {{IndiaRailInfo|333}}
{{Adjacent stations|noclear=y
|system=Indian Railways
|line=East Central Railway zone|left=Kuchman|right=Jeonathpur|type=[[Howrah–Delhi main line]]
|line2=East Central Railway zone|left2=Ganjkhwaja|right2=Jeonathpur|type2=[[Grand Chord]] line
|line3=East Central Railway zone|left3=|right3=Vyasnagar|type3=Mughalsarai–Varanasi–Lucknow line}}

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[[Category:Railway stations in Chandauli district]]
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