The station nameboard, 50mm, dead square, filling the frame, in dawn side-light. With the station master's permission. 21:9 · 2800×1200
The railway
Koiripur stationकोइरीपुर स्टेशन
Code
KEPR
Zone
Northern Railway
Division
Lucknow
Line
Varanasi–Sultanpur–Lucknow via Jaunpur
Source
Koiripur is a halt, not a junction. It sits on the line that runs from Varanasi through Jaunpur and Sultanpur to Lucknow, under Northern Railway’s Lucknow division. Indian Railways classes small stations of this kind NSG-6.
What is interesting here is not romance but the fact that a rail line put this town on a national network. When the line and the halt opened has not been found in any source, and it is this section’s first research priority.
Conflict 03 · Railway traffic figures
Four commercial rail-booking aggregators give four different train counts for Koiripur (KEPR): “approximately 2”, “a total of 4”, “22 trains”, and “59 trains”. None cites Indian Railways. Several also carry boilerplate calling KEPR “one of the busiest railway stations”, which is plainly false for an NSG-6-class halt.
- RailYatri“59 trains”
- ixigo“22 trains”
- ProkeralaNames Farakka Express and the Varanasi–Sultanpur passenger
Rule for the site: never cite an aggregator for a number. Use only the Indian Railways NTES / Northern Railway Lucknow Division timetable, dated at the point of citation (“as of the 2025–26 working timetable”). Otherwise say “a small number of passenger and MEMU services stop here” and leave it unquantified.
The timetable as an artefactसमय-सारिणी, एक वस्तु के रूप में
A scan of the printed timetable with the page edge visible. It is a document, not an illustration — so it is not cropped.
Do you have an old ticket, pass or timetable? Scan it for the archive.
Send a documentThen & nowतब और अब
35mm from the forecourt centre, camera at 1.55m, verticals corrected; match the nameboard's height in frame
The station frontage, pre-1980 (estimated) — railway records, retired staff albums, family photographs
No historic frame has been found. The anchor must be shot precisely enough that a photograph found in five years can still be matched to it.
Staff and passengersकर्मचारी और यात्री
An environmental portrait, shot where the recording was made
No recording has been made yet. The first three conversations will be taken with a signed consent form and a transcript.
An environmental portrait, shot where the recording was made
No recording has been made yet. The first three conversations will be taken with a signed consent form and a transcript.
Sourcesस्रोत
- Sri Krishna Nagar railway station
English Wikipedia
Confirms the Varanasi–Sultanpur–Lucknow line via Jaunpur under Northern Railway's Lucknow division, and the NSG-6 class of small halts on it
- Koiripur timetable page
Prokerala
Northern Railway / Lucknow division attribution; names Farakka Express and the Varanasi–Sultanpur passenger
- Koiripur (KEPR) station page
RailYatri
Station code KEPR. Cited only as an example of unreliable traffic figures — claims 59 trains
- Koiripur (KEPR) station page
ixigo
Claims 22 trains; names Varuna Express and Varanasi–Lucknow services