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Shahpur Patori railway station is a railway station in the Sonpur railway division of East Central Railway. The station code is SPP. The station is located in Shahpur Patori block in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar. This railway station was established in 1901. It was relocated to i
ts present place in 1938. Earlier, the location of this station was somewhere between Shahpur Undi and Tara Dhamaun villages. An interesting story is there about naming of the station. The dispute arose between the villagers of the two adjoining villages, each wanted to name the station after the name of their villages. Finally, it was settled that the 'Shahpur' word would be taken from the village name Shahpur Undi and 'Patori' name would be taken from the village name Bahadurpur Patori and thus the name 'Shahpur Patori' was given. On those days, the steam engines running on this route used to go at the bank of Baya river for filling water. A special railway track was there for this service. This railway track was passing between the buildings of present-day Bich Bajzar before ultimately reaching at the bank of the Baya river. A well (still existing) with the pulley system was there to...
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