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                                   OPERATING DEPARTMENT

 

 1.0  ORGANISATION CHART

 

                            Raushan Kumar

                                                                 Sr. DOM

                                         

                                ( R K Srivastava )

                                       DOM                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                       

        (Vacant)                               Ajit Kumar                            Ratnesh Kumar              

       AOM (Plg)                             AOM/Chg                               AO/BJU                    

                                

  2.0    INTRODUCTION :

2.1     Route KMs                                :        496.52

2.2     Crossing Stations                     :      63 (Excl. SPJ)

2.3     Halt/Flag                                  :      27

2.4     Spl class                                  :       01 (Deoria)

2.5     Signaling & Interlocking           :      Standard Interlocking II®

2.6     IBS in division                         :      Bet. MNE-MSK, DGA-BAGL, PSR- NNR, 

                                                                 KIR-SMO, BCA-VPDA & MFP-RD.

2.7     No. of Goods Shed                 :         13

2.8     Industrial/Private Siding          :         05

 

3.0    GENERAL INFORMATION :-

Type of Station

No. of Stations

Crossing Station :

63 (Excluding Samastipur)

Flag/Halt :

27

Total  :

90 (Excluding Samastipur)

                

   The division caters the need of NF region and North Bihar. There are 13 nos. Rake handling siding and 05 nos Private sidings. The details are as under :-

3.2    Goods Shed over division :-

 

Name of Goods shed

Lines and their handling capacity 

Traffic dealt with

Inward

Outward

Barauni

L/ 27 & 28 – Half rake

Cement, S/Chips, Food Grain & Fertilizer

C. P. Coke

Khagaria

L/6 – Full Rake

Stone Chips, Cement, Salt, Food Grain & Fertilizer

Maize

Naugachhia

L/5 – Full Rake

Cement, Salt, Food Grain & Fertilizer

Maize

Sarai

L/5 & 6 – Full Rake

Cement, Fertilizer, Stone chips, Salt, Food Grain & Tractor

---

Harauli Fatehpur

L/3 – Full Rake

Stone chips

---

Semapur

L/6 – Full Rake

--

Maize

Kursela

L/5 – Half rake

--

Maize

Mansi

L/7 – Full Rake

Cement

Maize

Nayagaon

L/6 – Full rake

Boulder, Stone Chips and Ballast

---

Garhara

S-2, S-6 & Jumbo – Full rake (BOXN -58)

RPC (Raw petroleum coke), Stone & Ballast

---

Tilrath

L/6- Full Rake

Cement, Fertilizer, Food Grain & Bitumen

Maize

Akshayvatrai Nagar

L/5 – Full rake

Stone Chips

---

Katareah

L/5 – Full rake

---

Maize

 

3.3    Private Sidings:-

 

Name of siding

Line no. and its Holding capacity

Commodities dealt with

Inward

Outward

Bihar Thermal Power Station, Simaria.

L/1 to L-6

Full rake

Coal, Furnace oil

Fly Ash

Indian Oil Corporation, Barauni.

L/1 to L-6

Half  Rake

POL

POL & RP Coke

PSC sleeper siding, Sarai

L-6

Full rake

---

Sleeper

HURL siding at Garhara

L/1 & 2

Full rake

--

Fertilizer

LAGP FCI siding at PSR

L/5

Full rake

Food Grain

--

 

3.4     Line capacity utilization of various sections (2024-25) :-

 

 Section

DL/SL/ TSL

Charted capacity each way

Average train services each way daily

%age utilization of charted capacity

Without MB

With MB 

Without MB

With MB

Chapra Gramin – Sonpur

DL

56.00

49.00

54.50

97.32

111.22

Parmanandpur -Pahleja Ghat

SL

28.00

24.50

07.15

25.54

29.18

Pahleja Ghat - Sonpur

SL

32.00

28.00

27.50

85.94

98.21

Sonpur – Hajipur

DL

76.00

66.50

76.50

100.66

115.04

Hajipur - Muzaffarpur

DL

51.00

44.60

48.50

95.10

108.74

Muzaffarpur – Samastipur

DL

53.00

46.38

53.00

100.0

114.27

Samastipur – Bachhwara

DL

52.00

45.50

44.00

84.62

96.70

Bachhwara – Barauni

DL

72.00

63.00

73.00

101.39

115.87

Barauni – Dinkar Gram Semaria

TSL

46.00

40.25

45.50

98.91

113.04

Sahebpur Kamal-Sabdalpur

SL

30.00

26.50

12.00

40.00

45.28

Sabdalpur – Umeshnagar

SL

30.00

26.50

10.50

35.00

39.62

Barauni – Khagaria

DL

59.00

51.63

55.00

93.22

106.53

Khagaria – Mansi

DL

64.00

56.00

60.00

93.75

107.14

Mansi – Koshi Block Hut

DL

51.00

44.63

40.50

79.41

90.75

Koshi Block Hut – Kursela

TSL

51.00

44.63

40.50

79.41

90.75

Kursela – Katihar

DL

51.00

44.63

40.50

79.41

90.75

Bachhwara– Hajipur

DL

46.00

40.25

32.50

70.65

80.75

                                                 

                                            OPERATING PERFORMANCE:

4.0  Coaching performance:-

4.1     Nos. of Coaching Trains running in Sonpur Division (In pairs)

Trains

Total Trains

Daily

Non-Daily

Mail/Exp.

143

37

106

Pass.

39

38

01

TOD

25

03

22

Total :

207

78

129

Type of trains

Number (in pair)

Vande Bharat

03

Namo Bharat

01

Amrit Bharat

06

Rajdhani

03

Garib Rath

02

Superfast

17

M/Exp

111

TOD

25

Passenger

39

Total

207

 
                                                                                  
          Number of Trains Originate/Terminate :
 
 

To/From Station

Number (in pairs)

Mail/Express

Passenger

Barauni

7

8

Sonpur

0

8

Tilrath

0

2

Khagaria

0

1

Maheshkhunt

0

1

Deoria

0

2

Total

07

22

 
 

 

 

4.2      Comparative Punctuality Performance (M/Exp trains) :-

 

Month

2025-26

2026-27

% age variation

April

89.65

87.56

- 2.09

May

82.38

   

 

     

 

June

85.25

   

 

     

 

July

84.63

   

 

     

 

August

90.79

    

 

      

 

September

82.82

   

 

      

 

October

68.24

   

 

   

 

November

63.78

   

 

    

 

December

58.70

   

 

   

 

January

73.44

   

 

      

 

February

87.15

   

 

      

 

March

83.68

   

 

    

 

Overall

79.26

   

 

     

 

 

   

    Running of Special trains :-

    During 2026-27 (up to Apr'26), 368 special trains run in comparison to 642 special trains of last year.

 

Up to April

% variation

 

2025-26

2025-26

 

No. of Special Trains

642

368

       - 42.68

 

   5.0     Goods performance:-

5.1     Goods performance in comparison to corresponding period of last    

           financial year.

 

Items

2025-26

(up to Apr)

2026-27

(up to Apr)

       % Variation

Achieve-ment

Target

Achieve-ment

With

Target

with

L.Y.

Loading (MT)

0.298

0.34 0.276 -18.81 - 7.29

POL (MT)

0.144

0.14 0.131 - 6.66 - 9.03

General Goods Incl. Maize (MT)

0.154

0.20 0.145 - 27.32 - 5.67

Wagon Interchange

216633

--- 203448 --- - 6.09

Freight Train Interchange

4771

--- 4463 --- - 6.46

WTR

1.62

--- 1.20 -- - 25.93

Wagon Holding

4165.5

3000 2671.5 - 10.95 - 35.87

Diesel Utilization

264.1

283 306.6 8.33 16.08

Diesel outage

32.09

--- 17.06 -- - 46.84

Electric utilization

218.2

230 245.2 6.59 12.36

Electric outage

90.7

--- 69.13 --- - 23.76

 

5.2   Point wise interchange figures :-  

 

INTERCHANGE PERFORMANCE

DIV.

 2025-26 (up to Apr)

 2026-27 (up to Apr)

% Variation w.r.t LY

I/C

Avg./Day

I/C

Avg./Day

TO

MO

TOTAL

TO

MO

TOTAL

BSB

CHPG

13.27

14.00

27.27

CHPG

14.57

17.37

31.93

17.11

DNR

BPGJ

3.47

4.03

7.50

BPGJ

2.70

2.03

4.73

-36.89

DNR

DKGS

17.20

12.57

29.77

DKGS

15.57

11.83

27.40

-7.95

KIR

KIR

14.20

15.77

29.97

KIR

11.77

12.93

24.70

-17.58

MLDT

MGR

10.37

8.07

18.43

MGR

11.50

8.27

19.77

7.23

SPJ

KGG

1.50

5.60

7.10

KGG

0.77

3.00

3.77

-46.95

SPJ

KVC

4.07

7.47

11.53

KVC

0.00

0.00

0.00

-100.00

SPJ

MFP

4.17

5.27

9.43

MFP

2.63

1.77

4.40

-53.36

SPJ

MNE

2.70

1.83

4.53

MNE

2.97

2.37

5.33

17.65

SPJ

SPJ

8.97

4.53

13.50

SPJ

11.67

15.07

26.73

98.02

 

TOTAL

79.90

79.13

159.03

TOTAL

74.13

74.63

148.77

-6.46

 

5.3   Inward rakes comparative figures :-

 

Terminal

Nos. of rake in 2025-26

Nos. of rake in 2026-27

%age variation

(up to Apr)

(up to Apr)

NNA

20

24

20.0

KGG

28

19

-32.1

BJU

11

06

-45.5

GHZ

15

0

-100.0

SAI

43

47

9.3

NYO

16

11

-31.3

IORG

04

20

400.0

BTSS

41

13

-68.3

TIL

24

29

20.8

HUFP

11

19

72.7

AYRN

08

08

--

MNE

0

0

--

KUE

01

01

--

LAGP

0

0

--

Total

222

197

- 11.3

 

5.4   Outward rakes comparative figures :-

 

Terminal

Nos. of rake in 2025-26

Nos. of rake in 2026-27

%age variation

(up to Apr)

(up to Apr)

SMO

06

02

-66.7

KUE

09

01

-88.9

NNA

0

0

--

MNE

07

0

-100.0

KGG

0

0

--

BJU

01

02

100.0

IORG

55

50

-9.09

GHZ

0

0

--

HUBG

32

46

43.75

BTSS

04

0

- 100.0

KTRH

0

0

--

SAI

0

01

100.0

Total

114

102

- 10.53

 

6.0    Staff position of Safety category as on 01.05.2026 :-

 

Category

BOS

On roll

Vac.

Remarks

SM/ASM/YM/TI

401

376

25

 

Guard

587

522

65

 

Shunting Master

17

17

0

 

Shuntman

23

03

20

 

Pointsman & Gateman

717

649

68

CTNL/TNL

56

53

03

 

 

Source : East Central Railway Last Reviewed : 28-05-2026