Gorakhpur railway
station’s platform number one of Uttar Pradesh has entered into the Limca Book
of Records as longest rail platform in the world. The certificate given by the
Limca Book of Records was unveiled on 10 January 2014 by KK Atal, the General
Manager North Eastern Railways (NER).
The platform’s length is 1355.40 meters and was inaugurated in 6 October 2013. Before the
platform number one of Gorakhpur, the platform of Kharagpur railway station of West Bengal had the distinction of
being world’s largest platform with length of 1072.5 meters.