Alipurduar Junction railway station

Alipurduar Junction
Indian Railways junction station
Alipurduar Junction railway station
Location	BF Road, Alipurduar, West Bengal India
Coordinates	26°31′25″N 89°32′01″E / 26.5237°N 89.5335°E / 26.5237; 89.5335Coordinates: 26°31′25″N 89°32′01″E / 26.5237°N 89.5335°E / 26.5237; 89.5335
Elevation	53 metres (174 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	Northeast Frontier Railway
Line(s)	New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line, Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line
Platforms	3
Construction
Structure type	At ground
Parking	Available
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	APDJ
Zone(s)	North East Frontier Railway
Division(s)	Alipurduar
History
Previous names	Cooch Behar State Railway
Services
Preceding station   Indian Railways   Following station toward ? Northeast Frontier Railway zone New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line toward ? Terminus Northeast Frontier Railway zone Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line toward ?
Location
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Alipurduar Junction is one of the four railway stations that serve Alipurduar city in Alipurduar district in north Bengal in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its station code is APDJ and lies in New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line and Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line. An adjacent railway junction is New Alipurduar (station code NOQ).

Trains[]

The main trains operated by this station is listed below-

• Puri–Kamakhya Weekly Express (via Howrah)^[1]
• Dr. Ambedkar Nagar–Kamakhya Express^[2]
• Old Delhi-Alipurduar Mahananda Express^[3]
• Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Express^[4]
• Kamakhya-Patna Capital Express^[5]
• Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Kamakhya Karmabhoomi Express.^[6]
• Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express
• Sealdah-Alipurduar Kanchan Kanya Express^[7]
• Jhajha–Dibrugarh Weekly Express^[8]
• Udaipur City–Kamakhya Kavi Guru Express^[9]
• Ranchi–Kamakhya Express^[10]
• New Tinsukia–Bengaluru Weekly Express
• Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express
• Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express
• Alipurduar–Kamakhya Intercity Express
• Siliguri–Alipurduar Intercity Express^[11]
• New Jalpaiguri Alipurduar Tourist Vistadome Special^[12]
• .^[13]

History[]

The Cooch Behar State Railway built a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge railway from Geetaldaha on the Eastern Bengal Railway to Jainti in 1901. The line passed through Alipurduar. It was converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge in 1910.^{[citation needed]}

With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, earlier passing through the eastern part of Bengal, were completely cut off from the rest of India. The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 to construct a 229-kilometre long (142 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre-gauge railway linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj in Bihar via Alipurduar.^[14] The first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.^[15]

Now all the railway tracks in Alipurduar city are broad gauge.^{[citation needed]}

Other adjacent stations[]

Two adjacent local railway stations are Alipurduar (station code APD) and Alipurduar Court (station code APDC). Long-distance trains do not stop there.^{[citation needed]}

Most of the long-distance trains from other parts of India pass through and stop at New Alipurdur railway junction (station code NOQ) constructed in early 1950s as it is connected with double track to Assam and the rest of Bengal. The older Alipurduar station was on metre-gauge track that was converted to broad gauge much later in 2006 and fewer trains pass through Alipurduar station.^{[citation needed]}

The two junctions are on different lines and only one short-distance train Alipurduar–Kamakhya InterCity Express (train number 15471) runs between the two junctions.^{[citation needed]}

Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2007.^[15]

References[]

External links[]

• Trains at Alipurduar Junction
• Alipurduar travel guide from Wikivoyage