Sonpur railway division
Sonpur railway division is one of the five railway divisions under East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. Sonpur division, established on 21 Oct. 1978 in North Eastern Railway zone, is spread over north side of holy river Ganges and West side of Gandak River. Garhara yard and Dinkar Gram Simaria station, part of Danapur division, have been merged in this division since 1 January 2005. The division routes over 495.361 km, all on BG. This division traverses through 8 districts of Bihar and therefore, is playing important role in growth & developments of these districts - Saran, Vaishali, Muzaffarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Khagaria, Bhagalpur and Katihar of North Bihar in social, economic, industrial and cultural field. The ECR zone came into existence on 8 September 1996 and its headquarter is located at Hajipur, Bihar in the state of Bihar of India.
Danapur railway division, Mughalsarai railway division, Dhanbad railway division, and Samastipur railway division are the other railway divisions under ECR Zone headquartered at Hajipur.
Sonpur railway division area starts from Goldinganj in the west in Saran. The current Divisional Railway Manager is Anil Kumar Gupta and the Additional Divisional Railway Manager is Pankaj Kumar Sinha.
List of railway stations and towns
The list includes the stations under the Sonpur railway division and their station category.| Category of station | No. of stations | Names of stations |
| A-1 Category | 1 | |
| A Category | 3 | , ,, |
| B Category | 5 | ,,, & |
| C Category | 0 | - |
| D Category | 15 | SPP, MSK, DGA, SMO, BCA, DOL, THB, MOG, DES, CRR, KUE, GRL, LAK, KRBP & MNO |
| E Category | 41 | BNR, LKN, NNR, PSR, DUBH, VPN, STLR, AYRN, UJP, TGA, NAZJ, SDG, SKJ, SLT, SIHO, KTRH, NYO, KHQ, KPGM, SAI, GJH, CSR, RD, GAI, KHI, STJT, NRPA, BKRH, TUR, BAGL, TIL, SAE, DPL, UMNR, CKRD, PMU, BUJ, ATNR, BTHL, BUDA & NNNL |
| F Category Halt Station | 28 | - |
| Total | 88 | - |
Stations closed for Passengers -