रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास है।

Because Hindi very commonly uses loanwords from English, especially for modern public places, transport, and administration.

• रेलवे = railway
• काउंटर = counter
• प्लेटफ़ॉर्म = platform

These words are written in Devanagari but are basically English words adapted to Hindi pronunciation and spelling. This is extremely normal in everyday Hindi.

You could sometimes hear more native-style alternatives in formal contexts, but in real life this sentence sounds natural.

The sentence follows the usual Hindi pattern:

Subject / thing being talked about + location phrase + है

So here:

• रेलवे काउंटर = the railway counter
• प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास = near the platform
• है = is

Literally, Hindi is saying something like:

Railway counter platform near is.

This is a very common Hindi structure for location sentences.

Because के पास is a fixed postpositional expression meaning near or close to.

So:

• प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास = near the platform

You should learn के पास as a chunk.

It is also used in other meanings, such as in someone’s possession:

• मेरे पास किताब है। = I have a book.
  Literally: Near me a book is.

In your sentence, it has the location meaning: near the platform.

Hindi postpositions usually require the noun before them to appear in the oblique form. With many masculine nouns, this often shows up with के, का, की, etc. But in the case of पास, the normal expression is X के पास.

So:

• स्टेशन के पास = near the station
• घर के पास = near the house
• प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास = near the platform

For a learner, the simplest rule is:

• learn के पास as the normal expression for near

है is the present-tense form of to be for he/she/it/this/that and singular nouns in simple statements.

Here it means is:

• रेलवे काउंटर ... है। = The railway counter ... is.

Since रेलवे काउंटर is being treated as a singular thing, है is used.

If it were plural, you would usually use हैं:

• रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास हैं। = The railway counters are near the platform.

It works as one noun phrase: railway counter.

Hindi often places one noun before another, especially with borrowed words, to create a compound-like expression.

So:

• रेलवे काउंटर = railway counter
• not necessarily the railway and the counter as two separate items

This is similar to how English stacks nouns together.

Hindi normally does not use articles like the and a/an.

So a sentence like:

रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास है।

could mean:

• The railway counter is near the platform
• A railway counter is near the platform

Which one sounds best depends on context. Hindi often leaves this unstated because the listener can usually figure it out.

A simple learner-friendly transliteration is:

relvee kaauntar pletform ke paas hai

A slightly more careful version:

rel-vey kaa-un-ter plet-form ke paas hai

A few notes:

• व in रेलवे may sound somewhere between English v and w
• काउंटर is adapted from counter, often pronounced roughly kaauntar
• पास has a long aa sound, like paas
• है is often pronounced like hai, somewhat like English high, but shorter and lighter

Yes. के नज़दीक also means near or close to.

So both are possible:

• रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास है।
• रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के नज़दीक है।

के पास is very common and everyday.
के नज़दीक can sound a bit more formal or literary in some contexts, though it is still common.

Because Hindi usually places the verb at or near the end of the sentence.

So the pattern is:

• thing
• place/location
• verb

Examples:

• किताब मेज़ पर है। = The book is on the table.
• स्टेशन यहाँ है। = The station is here.
• रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास है। = The railway counter is near the platform.

This verb-final tendency is one of the biggest differences from English.

It is written in Devanagari, the main script used for Hindi.

The symbol । at the end is called the danda. It functions like a period/full stop.

So:

• है। = hai.

In modern informal Hindi, especially online, people also often use a regular English period ., but । is the traditional punctuation mark.

Yes. Even though the sentence is structurally just a location statement, in real life it can function very practically.

For example, if someone asks where the railway counter is, the answer:

रेलवे काउंटर प्लेटफ़ॉर्म के पास है।

means the counter is located near the platform, and it tells you where to go.

So grammatically it is a simple X is near Y sentence, but pragmatically it can serve as directions.

It is basically neutral everyday Hindi.

Why?

• The grammar is standard.
• The vocabulary uses common borrowed public-place words.
• के पास है is a normal everyday way to describe location.

So it would sound natural in conversation, announcements, or simple written instructions.