Pakur railway station

Pakur railway station is an important station of Pakur district, located in Pakur, Jharkhand, India. It has many facilities, like four 24-hour ticket booking counters, a 12-hour computerised reservation counter etc. There are stone chips' mines & many crushing units at Pakur, which offer a good production to different parts of the country. The PANEM coal mines at Amrapara help to run the thermal power plants of Punjab, as the coal is loaded in the freight wagons at Malpahari Road, about 4 km away from Pakur railway station. There is a General & a First Class Waiting Room for the passengers. The railway line on the western side leads to a freight yard, which consists of BOXNHL, BOBYN etc. freight rakes. A rail loco shed is currently under construction at the freight yard.ElectrificationThe station is all set up to be electrified. The electrification of this section was sanctioned in the rail budget 2012-13. Both the platforms are connected via two railway foot-overbridges (FOBs).