The station is part of the Northern Railway Lucknow Division and the Varanasi–Lucknow line via Jaunpur-Ayodhya.

Nearby stations include Jaunpur City (JOP) and Zafarabad Junction (ZBD).

Jaunpur Junction is well connected with many important cultural cites such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, Jammu, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, Raipur, Rameswaram, Haridwar, Tiruchirappalli, Indore, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi, Nagpur, Mathura, Vijayawada, Agra, Durg ,Tata,Kharagpur, etc.

It also has multi facilities like unreserved class people waiting hall, SBI Bank, Public Library, Post Office, Police Station and Snack corners.

The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway opened the 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad-gauge line from Varanasi to Lucknow in 1872.