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- ↑ "Mughalsarai Railway Division" (PDF). Railway Board . Western Railway zone . Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- 1 2 Dutta, Anisha (20 January 2020). "Mughalsarai railway division renamed". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ↑ "Unsolved midnight murder mystery of Deendayal Upadhyaya at Mughalsarai Junction". Times Now. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ↑ Pandey, Deepak K. (25 May 2015). "Probe murder of Deendayal Upadhyaya afresh: Swamy". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ↑ "Statement showing Category-wise No. of stations in IR based on Pass. earning of 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ↑ "PASSENGER AMENITIES - CRITERIA= For Categorisation Of Stations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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