Template:Infobox rail line The Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line is an Indian railway line connecting Template:Stnlnk with Template:Stnlnk. This Template:Convert track is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway.
History
Cooch Behar State Railway
The Cooch Behar State Railway (CBSR) was a Template:Track gauge narrow gauge railway line that was built between Jayanti in the current Alipurduar district of West Bengal, India to Lalmonirhat in the current Lalmonirhat district in Bangladesh before partition between 1893 and 1898. The line originated from Jayanti near the foothills of Eastern Himalayas and went via Alipurduar, Cooch Behar, Dinhata and Gitaldaha to finally join the narrow-gauge track of Kaunia–Dharlla State Railway at Mogalhat. This line was later brought by Eastern Bengal Railway in 1899.[1]
Eastern Bengal Railway
The Kaunia–Dharlla State Railway was constructed as a narrow-gauge line from Teesta railway junction to Mogalhat on 1882 by Eastern Bengal Railway. As a part of linking with the Template:Convert long Katihar–Raiganj–Dinajpur–Parbatipur–Rangpur–Kaunia main metre-gauge line the Kaunia–Mogalhat–Gitaldaha NG section was converted to metre gauge from 1901 to 1902. The Template:Convert long Gitaldaha-Golakganj section was built as a part of the main metre-gauge line on 1902 via Bamanhat & Sonahat. This metre-gauge line was further extended to Amingaon via Fakiragram & Kokrajhar on 1906. The Jayanti–Gitaldaha junction section was converted to metre gauge on 1910.[2]
Post Partition
With the partition of India on 1947, the Assam links to Bengal were snapped. Further the Gitaldaha–Mogalhat rail transit point became defunct as the railway bridge over Dharla River was washed away in floods. The Template:Convert Alipurduar–Bamanhat section and Template:Convert Fakiragram-Golakganj sections were cutoff as well and became isolated metre gauge sections. As a part of the Assam Link project a Template:Convert line was constructed between Kishanganj and Fakiragram in 1948. Thus these 2 sections became branch lines. Fakiragram was connected with a new Template:Convert line via Boxirhat to New Coochbehar in 2010-12.
Gauge conversion
The Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge and was reopened to public on 2007.[3] A new station called the New Gitaldaha station was built to be used instead of the old Gitaldaha junction. The Fakiragram–Golakganj–Dhubri section was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge during 2010. Golakgunj was linked with New Cooch Behar with a new line on 2012 as a part of the New Maynaguri-Jogighopa project.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Cooch Behar State Railway.
- ↑ Eastern Bengal Railway main line.
- ↑ Role of Engineering Deptt in Meeting Corporate Objectives of Indian Railways, Srivastava, V.P.. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
- ↑ NFR project as of October 31 2017. North East Frontier Railway. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ↑ Mamata flags off two trains- Dhubri-Kamakhya link after 22-year wait. The Telegraph(14 September 2010). Retrieved 2011-12-10.
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