Kanpur Anwarganj railway station

Kanpur Anwarganj Cawnpore Anwarganj
Indian Railway Station Railway Station
Location	NH 91, Anwarganj Street, Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh  India
Elevation	126.000 metres (413.386 ft)
Line(s)	Kanpur-Mathura
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Connections	taxi stand
Construction
Structure type	Standard (on ground station)
Parking	available
Other information
Status	functioning
Station code	CPA
Zone(s)	North Eastern Railway
Division(s)	Izzatnagar railway division
History
Opened	1896
Electrified	January 2009
Previous names	Indian Branch Rly. Co. Northern Railways

Coordinates: 26°27′19″N 80°19′44″E / 26.455402°N 80.328925°E / 26.455402; 80.328925

Kanpur Anwarganj is a railway station in Kanpur. It is the second largest station in Kanpur after Kanpur Central. It has three platforms. It was constructed during the British Raj. It has one big clock on its main building. It is on the Farrukhabad-Kanpur line. Until 2006 it was a metre gauge station. In 2006 Railway Minister Sri Lalu Prasad Yadav reopened the line as a broad gauge railway line towards Lucknow. The first station superintendent was Mr. V.N. Pandey. In 2008 a broad gauge line opened towards Mathura too.

Kanpur Anwarganj serves trains of Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway to reduce pressure on Kanpur Central. Some MEMU trains start from here.^[1] Kanpur Anwarganj is now linked with some new stations like New Delhi, Mathura, Agra, Jaipur, Gorakhpur, Chapra, Patna, Kolkata, etc. Now Kanpur Anwarganj is one of the main railway station on the route to Rajasthan and Eastern India.

Trains originating at Kanpur Anwarganj

Important Trains passing from Kanpur Anwarganj

See also

• Kanpur Central
• Govindpuri
• Chandari
• Panki
• Chakeri
• Mandhana
• Kalyanpur
• Rawatpur
• Kanpur Bridge Left Bank
• Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway

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