Cooch Behar railway station (also referred to as Old Cooch Behar railway station) serves Cooch Behar in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
Cooch Behar State Railway built a Template:RailGauge-wide narrow-gauge railway from the southern bank of the Torsa opposite Cooch Behar town to Gitaldaha, a station on the tracks of Eastern Bengal Railway in 1894. Cooch Behar town was connected in 1901 after a bridge was built on the Torsa. It was converted to Template:RailGauge-wide metre gauge in 1910.[1] Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to Template:Track gauge broad gauge in 2007.[2]
Railway heritage museum
The more than a century old Cooch Behar railway station has been accorded a heritage status and a new building was built to accommodate a Railway Heritage Museum.[3][4]
References
- ↑ The Cooch Behar State Railways (1903). IRFCA. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
- ↑ Role of Engineering Deptt in Meeting Corporate Objectives of Indian Railways, Srivastava, V.P.. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
- ↑ Construction of Railway Heritage Museum starts. Cooch Behar Calling. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
- ↑ Track Record, Bora, Bijay Sankar. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
External links
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