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{{short description|Railway station serving the city of Badarpur in Assam, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}
{{EngvarB|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Badarpur Junction
| type = [[File:Indian_Railways_Suburban_Railway_Logo.svg|30px]] Train station
| style = Indian Railways
| image = Badarpur Junction Railway Station front.jpg
| caption = Front view of Badarpur Junction
| address = [[Badarpur, Assam]]
| country = [[India]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|24.8656|N|92.5567|E|format=dms}}
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-custom = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=300|frame-height=180|zoom=14|type=point|marker=rail|id=Q19882200}}
| elevation =
| line = [[Lumding–Sabroom section]]
| other = [[File:Aiga taxi.svg|20px|taxi]][[Taxi|Cabs]],[[File:bus.svg|20px|Bus]][[Assam State Transport Corporation|ASTC]]bus, Autorickshaw & E-Rikshaw
| structure = [[Intersection_(road)#At_grade_railways|At grade]]
| platform =
| tracks = 9 (3 for passenger train)
| services = [[File: Waiting_Room_-_The_Noun_Project.svg|20px|alttext=Waiting Room]]
[[File:AB-Autobahnkiosk.svg|20px|Food & Drinks]]
[[File: Surveillance_camera.svg|20px|CCTV]]
| parking = {{rint|park}}Available
| bicycle = {{rint|bicycle}} Available
| opened = {{start date and age|df=yes|1898}}
| closed = 2014
| rebuilt = 2015
| electrified = [[File:Electric.svg|40px|Electrified]]Yes
| code = {{Indian railway code
| code = BPB
| zone = [[Northeast Frontier Railway zone|Northeast Frontier]]
| division = {{rwd|Lumding}}
}}
| owned = [[Indian Railways]]
| operator = [[Northeast Frontier Railway]]
| status = Functioning
| former =
| map_type = India Assam#India
| map_dot_label = Badarpur Junction
| map_caption = Location in [[Assam]]##Location in India
}}

'''Badarpur Railway Station''' serves the Indian city of [[Badarpur, Assam|Badarpur]] in [[Assam]]. It belongs to [[Lumding railway division]] of [[Northeast Frontier Railway]] of India. It is located at [[Cachar district|Cachar]] district in the state of Assam. It is one of the oldest station of India built in 1898. The Station connects Badarpur to other regions of [[Barak Valley]] as well as many parts of India. Badarpur railway station is also the largest and most important railway station in Barak valley and [[Barak Valley|south Assam]] region.

== History ==
Assam Bengal Railway was incorporated in 1892 to serve British-owned tea plantations in Assam.<ref name=timeline>{{cite web| url = http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm| title = Indian Railway History timeline| last = R. P. Saxena| publisher = | access-date = 24 February 2012| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120714085533/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm| archive-date = 14 July 2012| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}</ref> The railway line from Chittagong to Badarpur was opened to traffic in 1898.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7OsLGZKYP5MC&pg=PA105 |title = Socio Economic and Political Problems of Tea Garden Workers: A Study of Assam, Published 2006, ISBN 81-8324-098-4|page=105 |author1=S. N. Singh |author2=Amarendra Narain |author3=Purnendu Kumar |date = January 2006|publisher= Mittal Publications|location=New Delhi |isbn = 9788183240987| access-date = 16 December 2011 }}</ref> In 1942 the management of Assam Bengal Railway was transferred to the Govt of India. It was amalgamated with the state managed [[Eastern Bengal Railway]] and designated as [[Assam Bengal Railway]].<ref name=timeline/>

On 1 January 1942 the Assam Bengal Railway combined with the Eastern Bengal Railway to form the Bengal and Assam Railway.<ref name=Railhist>{{cite web|url=http://www.railway.gov.bd/history.asp|title=History|publisher= [[Bangladesh Railway]]|access-date=11 January 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115201005/http://www.railway.gov.bd/history.asp |archive-date=15 November 2007}}</ref><ref>Rao, M.A. (1988). ''Indian Railways'', New Delhi: National Book Trust, p.37</ref> At time of the independence of India in 1947, Bengal–Assam Railway was split up and the portion of the system, about 2,603.92 km long which fell within the boundary of erstwhile [[East Pakistan]] was named as Eastern Bengal Railway, the control remaining with the central Government of Pakistan. Later, with the effect from 1 February 1961, Eastern Bengal Railway was renamed as Pakistan Railway.<ref name=Railhist/> In 1958 the Northeast Frontier Railways was created and Badarpur Junction came under it.

== Successors ==
With the [[partition of India]] in 1947, portions of the Assam Bengal Railway which lay in Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal became Assam Railway. [[North Eastern Railway zone|North Eastern Railway]] was formed in 1952 by amalgamating Assam Railway with Oudh Tirhut Railway and Fatehgarh district of [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]. [[Northeast Frontier Railway zone|Northeast Frontier Railway]] was carved out of North Eastern Railway in 1958.<ref name=timeline/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfr.railnet.gov.in/engir/History1.htm |title=History |publisher=Northeast Frontier Railway |access-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032906/http://www.nfr.railnet.gov.in/engir/History1.htm |archive-date= 2 May 2014 }}</ref>

The portion of the system which fell within the boundary of erstwhile East Pakistan was named as Eastern Bengal Railway. On 1 February 1961, Eastern Bengal Railway was renamed as Pakistan Railway and in 1962 it became Pakistan Eastern Railway .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railway.gov.bd/history.asp |title=History |publisher=Bangladesh Railways |access-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115201005/http://www.railway.gov.bd/history.asp |archive-date=15 November 2007 }}</ref> With the emergence of Bangladesh, it became [[Bangladesh Railway]].<ref name=banglapaedia>{{cite book |last=Fida |first=Quazi Abul |year=2012 |chapter=Railway |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Railway |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

After the independence of Pakistan on 15 August 1947 the broad-gauge portion of the Assam Bengal Railway, lying in India was added to the [[East Indian Railway]] and the metre-gauge portion became the Assam Railway,<ref>Rao, M. A. (1988). ''Indian Railways'', New Delhi: National Book Trust, p.39</ref> with its headquarters at Pandu. On 14 April 1952, the 2857 km-long Assam Railway and the [[Oudh and Tirhut Railway]] were amalgamated to form one of the six newly carved zones of the [[Indian Railways]]: the [[North Eastern Railway zone]].<ref name=r>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/financecode/ADMIN_FINANCE/AdminFinanceCh1_Data.htm |title=Chapter 1 – Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background |publisher=Ministry of Railways, India website |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601024404/http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/financecode/ADMIN_FINANCE/AdminFinanceCh1_Data.htm |archive-date=1 June 2009 }}</ref><ref>Rao, M. A. (1988). ''Indian Railways'', New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.42-3</ref> On the same day, the reorganised Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway (which was added to the East Indian Railway earlier) was amalgamated with the [[Eastern Railway zone|Eastern Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.easternrailwaysealdah.gov.in/WebForm/FrameContent/Engineering.html |title=Sealdah division-Engineering details |publisher=The Eastern Railway, Sealdah division |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215161611/http://www.easternrailwaysealdah.gov.in/WebForm/FrameContent/Engineering.html |archive-date=15 February 2012 }}</ref>

== Major trains ==
*[[Agartala–Anand Vihar Terminal Rajdhani Express|Agartala - Anand Vihar Terminal Tejas Rajdhani Express]]
*[[Sairang-Anand Vihar Terminal Rajdhani Express]]
*[[Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal –Agartala Humsafar Express|Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Agartala Humsafar Express]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=SMVT Bangalore-Agartala Humsafar Express|url=http://amp.indiarailinfo.com/train/-train-bengaluru-cantt-agartala-humsafar-express-12503/23116/996/3651|website=indiarailinfo.com|access-date=12 September 2022|archive-date=3 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103155342/http://amp.indiarailinfo.com/train/-train-bengaluru-cantt-agartala-humsafar-express-12503/23116/996/3651|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Agartala AC Express]]
*[[Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Express|Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express]]
*[[Aronai Express|Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Express]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tiruvananthapuram-Silchar Aronai Express|url=https://indiarailinfo.com/train/-train-aronai-express-12507/579/59/1053|website=indiarailinfo.com}}</ref>
*[[Silchar-Coimbatore Express|Silchar - Coimbatore Express]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Silchar-Coimbatore Express|url=https://www.confirmtkt.com/train-schedule/12516-SCL-CBE-EXPRESS|website=confirmtkt.com}} </ref>
*[[Silchar–Secunderabad Express|Silchar–Charlapalli Express]]
*[[Rangiya–Silchar Express]]
*Guwahati - Silchar Express
*Silchar - Agartala Express
*Narangi - Agartala Express
*[[Guwahati–Dullabcherra Express]]
*[[Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjunga Express]]
*[[Sealdah–Agartala Kanchanjunga Express|Sealdah–Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express]]
*[[Tripura Sundari Express|Agartala - Firozpur Cantonment Tripura Sundari Express]]
*[[Barak–Brahmaputra Express|Silchar - New Tinsukia Barak Brahmaputra Express]]
*[[Deoghar–Agartala Weekly Express]]
*Silchar-Kolkata Express
*Agartala-Guwahati Express
*[[Guwahati–Sairang Express|Sairang-Guwahati Express]]
*[[Kolkata–Sairang Express|Sairang-Kolkata Express]]
*Agartala- Raniya kamalapati (Habibganj) Express
*[[Guwahati|Agartala- Kolkata Garib Rath Express]]
*Agartala-Secunderabad Express
*Agartala- Khongsang Jan Statabdi Express

==See also ==

* [[North Eastern Railway Connectivity Project]]
* [[North Western Railway zone]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Railway stations in Assam}}

[[Category:Railway stations in India opened in 1898]]
[[Category:Railway stations in Karimganj district]]
[[Category:Lumding railway division]]
[[Category:Railway junction stations in Assam]]

Badarpur Junction railway station - Revision history

HarrisonHinson2 at 18:36, 4 April 2026