The nearest railway station in India is the Raxaul Junction which has trains bound to places like New Delhi, Kolkata in India.
It is an hour drive from the Nepalese border city of Birgunj, which is adjacent to its Indian counterpart, Raxaul.
There are direct trains to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad(Proposed extension of Hyderabad Darbhaga Express), Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Siwan, Sonpur, Hajipur, Lucknow,Darbhanga, and many cities.
Sirsiya is now known for its Inland Container Depot (ICD) or Dry Port that is very close to the border with India and connected to Raxaul railway junction in India across the border.
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The 6 km long metre gauge railway track from Raxaul was converted to broad gauge by the Indian railways to connect Sirsiya Inland Container Depot (ICD) (also known as Birganj Dry Port) that became fully operational in 2005.
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The Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul and Jainagar lines are a set of three lines connecting Barauni in the Indian state of Bihar with Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
They are found mainly in and near the towns of Raxaul, Rangarwa, Sagauli, Adapur, Nakerdehi, and Amudehi.