Alipurduar Junction railway station

Not to be confused with Alipurduar Railway Junction.

Alipurduar Junction is one of the four railway stations that serve Alipurduar city in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its station code is APDJ and it lies in New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line and Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line. An adjacent railway junction is New Alipurduar (station code NOQ).

Alipurduar Junction
Regional Rail & Light Rail Station
Alipurduar Junction railway station
General information
Location	BF Road, Alipurduar, West Bengal India
Coordinates	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	5
Tracks	12
Connections	Auto-rickshaw & E-rickshaw
Construction
Structure type	Standard on Ground
Parking	Available
Bicycle facilities	Available
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	APDJ
Zone(s)	North East Frontier Railway
Division(s)	Alipurduar
History
Opened	1901; 123 years ago (1901)
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Cooch Behar State Railway Assam Bengal Railway
Passengers
30,000 per day ( high)
Location Alipurduar Junction Location in West Bengal

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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 Alipurduar railway junction (station code NOQ) constructed in the 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.^[2]

References

1. "History of NFR". Northeast Frontier Railway. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
2. Srivastava, V.P. "Role of Engineering Deptt in Meeting Corporate Objectives of Indian Railways" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

External links

• Alipurduar Junction railway station at the India Rail Info
• Alipurduar travel guide from Wikivoyage