Burimari railway station

Burimari (Bengali: বুড়িমারী) is a border railway station in Bangladesh, situated in Lalmonirhat District, in Rangpur Division. It is a land border crossing point and a defunct railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border. The corresponding point on the Indian side is Changrabandha in Cooch Behar district.^[1]

Burimari
Bangladesh Railway Station
Burimari railway station
General information
Location	Lalmonirhat, Rangpur Bangladesh
Coordinates	26°23′48″N 88°56′04″E
Line(s)	Burimari-Lalmonirhat-Parbatipur Line
Construction
Structure type	Standard (on ground station)
Other information
Status	Functioning
History
Opened	1900?
Previous names	Bengal Dooars Railway

v t e Domohani–Burimari line
Legend
to Malbazar Domohani New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section ( 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge   ) Maynaguri Road 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge metre gauge changeover Changrabandha India Bangladesh border Burimari Burimari–Lalmonirhat–Parbatipur line

History

The Lalmonirhat-Malbazar metre gauge line was developed by the Bengal Dooars Railway in the closing years of the nineteenth century.^[2] With the partition of India in 1947, the Indian side of the line terminated at Changrabandha and the Pakistani side, later Bangladeshi side, at Burimari.^[3]

Present status

The line between New Mal Jn. and Changrabandha is now (2016) converted to broad gauge. A pair of DMUs have been introduced on this route from Siliguri to Changrabandha via New Mal Jn from 20 January 2016.^[4]

The Karotoa Express runs daily between Burimari to Santahare Junction [via Gaibandha-Bogura) and Lalmonirhat railway station. There are 1 local and 2 commuter trains daily between Burimari and Lalmonirhat-Rangpur-Perbottipur.^[5][6][7]

References

1. "Introducing Burimari". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on 21 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
2. "Bengal Dooars Railway". Fibis. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
3. "Geography - International". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
4. "Train running on the newly converted New Mal Junction-Changrabandha to start". North East Frontier Railway. Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
5. "Lalmonirhat-burimari Route -45 trains derail in 5 months - Lack of sleepers, stone makes the run-down track risky". The Daily Star. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
6. "Tk 14,531 crore BR projects to double capacity". Priyo.com. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
7. "Inter-city trains from Lalmonirhat". Bangladesh Railway. Retrieved 13 May 2019.