It serves as terminal station due to heavy rush at Varanasi Junction.

Earlier Varanasi Junction was the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway but later North Eastern Railway changed the headquarter.

As Varanasi Junction falls under the Northern Railway, Lucknow Charbagh Division.

The station is well connected with the cities like Ghazipur, Mau, Darbhanga, Chhapra, Mumbai, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, etc.

This article about a railway station in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is a stub.