Here are some popular nearby railway stations of Allahabad Jn - Prayag (PRG), etc. (Alamy) 4 railway stations in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj get new names 1 min read. ALLAHABAD: Following the Union home ministry’s approval and subsequent notification issued by the state government on Thursday evening, Allahabad Junction will henceforth be known as Three more railway stations located within city limits — While Prayagraj Junction and Prayagraj Chheoki come under the jurisdiction of North Central Railway (NCR), Prayagghat Sangam and Prayagraj Rambagh fall under Northern Railway (NR) and North Eastern Railway (NER), respectively. This comes a few weeks after an iconic UP railway station, the Mughalsarai Junction , was renamed after the RSS ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.
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In October 2018, the state government had renamed the historic city of Allahabad as Prayagraj and following the notification, all government departments also adopted the new name.
Updated: 21 Feb 2020, 09:55 AM IST ANI . Prayagraj Junction railway station, formerly known as Allahabad Junction railway station is a railway station on the Howrah-Delhi main line, Prayagraj-Mau-Gorakhpur main line and Howrah-Prayagraj-Mumbai line.It is the headquarters of the North Central Railway Zone. Similarly, code initials for Prayagraj Chheoki will be PCOI against ACOI for Allahabad Chheoki. That's a sign you may soon see in one of India's best-known cities, Allahabad, after the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet gave the name change a go-ahead Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav/File) In what is being seen as a move to push its Hindutva agenda before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday officially changed the name of Allahabad district to Prayagraj. Public relations officer of NCR Amit Malviya said they were incorporating the new names for regular use. “New codes are being allotted to the stations and change in passenger reservation system (PRS) has also been advised,” he said, adding that signboards would be altered at the earliest. The government said that other institutes named after the district would soon follow suit. It was converted to broad gauge in 1993–94.The Cheoki-Subedarganj section was electrified in 1965–66.There are engineering workshops of Indian Railways at Allahabad.Allahabad is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.The railways make special arrangements for the huge influx of pilgrims for the Allahabad Junction is an 'A' grade railway station. Allahabad To Prayagraj: The Politics Of Name Change ... the iconic Mughalsarai junction was rechristened Deendayal Upadhyaya junction. Next Story There are 59 weekly trains connecting Kanpur Central to Allahabad, 11 weekly trains connecting New Delhi to Allahabad, and 26 weekly trains connecting Howrah Jn to Allahabad.
Allahabad Junction will now be Prayagraj Junction.
The code initials for Prayagraj Junction will be PYRJ, which was earlier ALD for Allahabad Junction. The names of the stations were changed by the central and the state government on Thursday. Allahabad Jn Railway station is situated in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad railway station has 3 double-bedded AC retiring rooms, 9 double-bedded non-AC retiring rooms and a 20-bedded dormitory and is Wi-Fi enabled. The code initials for Prayagraj Junction will be PYRJ, which was earlier ALD for Allahabad Junction.