Sitarampur Junction, station code STN, is the railway station serving the neighbourhood of Neamatpur and Sitarampur in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

"The entire belt between Durgapur (158 km from Howrah), and all the way up to Dhanbad and beyond is industrialized.

Apart from factories, there are many coal mines, some closed now, and some with fires burning deep in the mineshafts.

This description is from "Gomoh loco shed and CLW trip record" by Samit Roychoudhury.

[5] As the movement of coal by trains increased considerably a new railway line, the Grand Chord, was laid from Sitarampur to Mughalsarai.