Railway Station Code Search — Find Station Codes in India

A railway station code is the short, unique identifier Indian Railways gives every station — usually 2 to 5 letters. HWH is Howrah Jn, NDLS is New Delhi and PUNE is Pune Jn. The code appears on tickets, PNR status pages, station name boards and booking forms wherever the full station name would take too much space.

Type the station name in the search box above — for example Howrah, New Delhi or Kanpur — and the tool lists matching stations with their codes, district, state and train count. You can also enter the code directly if you already know it. Codes are also printed on the station name board and shown on every IRCTC ticket.

Yes — type a district or city name such as Pune, Chennai or Mumbai Suburban in the search box. The tool returns every station in that district alongside exact code matches and station-name matches, so you can see all stations serving an area even when you do not know individual station names. In Browse by State you can also pick a state first, then narrow the list to one district with the District / City filter.

Yes. Every station with scheduled services has its own timetable page listing all trains that halt there — arrival and departure times, halt duration and running days — plus its zone, platform count and station grade. Open one from the View Timetable button in any search result, or click the station code in a state list. Each timetable page also links to other stations in the same district.

Jn (Junction) marks a station where at least two railway lines meet, so trains can change direction or route — Howrah Jn and Patna Jn. Terminal (T) is a line's end point where trains reverse to return, like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Halt or H is a smaller stop served by only a few trains, while Road (Rd) usually sits near a town rather than in its centre.

This tool covers 10,759 station codes across 29 states and union territories, including regular passenger stations plus the cabins and loco sheds that appear in railway directories. Each state has its own page listing every station in that state, and the search box resolves any code nationwide.

The trains column shows how many trains are listed as passing through that station in the source directory — a quick way to judge how busy a station is. Major junctions like LKO and BPL show several hundred, while small halts show a handful or zero. It is a directory count, not a daily timetable.

These are operational entries rather than passenger stations. XX-AMIB is the Amravati Bypass Cabin — cabins control track switches around big stations — and ED-DLS is the Erode Diesel Loco Shed, where locomotives are maintained. They carry station-style codes in railway records, so the directory includes them; you can still search them by code or name.

Yes. On IRCTC you pick stations by code in the From and To fields — typing HWH returns Howrah Jn directly — and the same code appears in the PNR status, reservation chart and train-running searches. Using codes avoids confusion between stations with similar names in different cities.

Rarely. Codes are treated as permanent identifiers because tickets, charts and freight records depend on them, so an existing station keeps its code even if renamed. New stations, halts and branches get fresh codes instead; historical codes stay valid for the trains that still use them.