Thursday, 16 January 2014

India's Gorakhpur railway station has world's longest platform

India's Gorakhpur railway station has world's longest platform


A newly built railway platform Gorakhpur from Utter Pradesh has entered into the record books as the longest railway platform in the world.
  • According to the certificate, the length of the platform is 1,355.40 metre.
  • It was inaugurated on October 6, 2013.
  • The previous record was held by a 1,072.5-metre long railway platform in Kharagpur in West Bengal.
 

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