exterior of darbhanga junction darbhanga junction 1 of oldest railhead of north bihar, s a1 category railway junction , model station on east central railway , 1 of highest earning important railway junction in zone , in state, darbhanga busiest station of samastipur division connected directly major cities of india, viz., kolkata, delhi, bangalore, mumbai, amritsar, patna, muzaffarpur, nagpur, kanpur, ranchi, pune, guwahati, bhubaneshwar, ahmedabad, hyderabad, chennai, raipur, bilaspur, lucknow, varanasi, siwan, gorakhpur, guwahati, raxaul, mysore, ajmer bangaluru etc. beginning of railway in darbhanga , neighboring areas imperial gazetteer of india, v. 11, p. 158/159. says: famine of 1874 gave great impetus construction of railways, , district on whole off in matter of com- munications. south-west corner traversed 29 miles main line of bengal , north-western railway, , 25 miles of new chord-line hajipur bachwara, runs parallel ganges embankment east west. samastipur line runs da...