TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
RAILWAYS
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Gorakhpur Railway Station
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Bilaspur Railway Station
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Trivandrum Central, Kerala
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gorakhpur Junction railway station (station code:GKP) is located in the city of Gorakhpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It has the world’s second longest railway platform after Hubli Junction railway station.
Detailed explanation-2: -India’s biggest platform With a length of 1, 366 metres, the platform at Gorakhpur Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh is the world’s longest. At 1, 072 metres, the platform at Kharagpur station in West Bengal held the previous record.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus is the biggest railway station in India. Frederick William Stevens designed the station in the style of Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture; he intended it to be a modern analogue to the classically inspired architecture of India.
Detailed explanation-4: -A newly constructed railway platform in Gorakhpur, U.P. entered into the Limca Book of World Records for being world’s longest railway platform. Platform No. 1 of the Gorakhpur is 1366.33 metres with ramp and 11355.40 metres without it.
Detailed explanation-5: -Infrastructure. After Hubballi Junction, Gorakhpur, and Kollam Junction in Kerala, Kharagpur has the world’s fourth-longest railway platform with a length of 1, 072.5 metres (3, 519 ft).