Template:Infobox station Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar.
History
Assam Behar State Railway extended the Template:RailGauge-wide metre-gauge railway from Parbatipur, now in Bangladesh, to Katihar in 1889. The connection was truncated with the partition of India in 1947, and the line now runs up to Radhikapur, near the Bangladesh border.[1]
In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi.[2][3] The railway lines in the area started being converted to Template:Track gauge broad gauge from the early 1960s.[3]
Amenities
Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring roomTemplate:Clarify.[4]
References
- ↑ IR History:Early days II. IRFCA. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ↑ IR History: Part IV (1947–1970). IRFCA. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 India: the complex history of the junctions at Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri. IRFCA. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
- ↑ Retiring rooms in Northeast Frontier Railway. Indian Railways. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
External links
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