Template:Infobox station Lumding Junction Railway Station serves the Indian city of Lumding in Assam. It is the divisional headquarter of Lumding railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is located in Hojai district. It is the 2nd biggest railway station of Lumding railway division, after Template:Stnlnk. It is one of the oldest railway stations in India built under Assam Bengal Railway. It consists of 5 platforms with a total of 68 halting trains and 3 originating trains. The station consists of double diesel line.[1]
History
In the pre-partition days, Assam was linked to Chittagong through the Akhaura–Kulaura–Chhatak line and Akhaura–Laksam–Chittagong line. The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port. Assam Bengal Railway started construction of a railway track on the eastern side of Bengal in 1891. A Template:Convert track between Chittagong and Comilla was opened to traffic in 1895. The Comilla–Akhaura–Kulaura–Badarpur section was opened in 1896–1898 and extended to Lumding in 1903.[2][3]
Assam Bengal Railway opened the Lumding–Guwahati line in 1900.[4]
After independence and partition, the entire Guwahati–Lumding–Dibrugarh–Tinsukia sector was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge by 1997.[5][6]
The Lumding–Silchar gauge conversion work was scheduled to be completed in March–April 2015.[7]
Amenities
Following services available in Lumding Jn. Railway Station:
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- 07 (02 Bedded) Non AC Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker File:Font Awesome 5 solid bed.svg
- 01 (08 Bedded) Non AC Dormitory with Free Wi-Fi/TV File:Font Awesome 5 solid bed.svg
- Executive Lounge
- High Speed Google Railwire Free Wi-Fi service File:Wifiservice.svg
- Upper Class/Lower Class Waiting Rooms having Free Wi-Fi/AC/TV/Charging points/Drinking water & separate Ladies/Gents Washrooms File:Waiting Room - The Noun Project.svg
- Food Plaza File:BSicon REST.svg
- Tea Stall File:AB-Autobahnkiosk.svg
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Loco shed
There was a metre gauge loco shed at Lumding. When the entire Guwahati–Lumding–Dibrugarh line was converted to broad gauge, the Lumding–Badarpur–Silchar line has also been converted to broad gauge. The YDM-4 metre gauge locos from New Guwahati loco shed were transferred to Lumding. Recently, the metre-gauge shed is transformed to EMU shed.[8]
Lumding railway division
Lumding railway division was created on 1 May 1969.[9]
Major trains
- New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)[10]
- New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via Moranhat)[11]
- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Agartala AC Express
- Guwahati−Dibrugarh Shatabdi Express
- Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Express
- Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express
- Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express[12]
- Silchar - Coimbatore Superfast Express[13]
- Sabroom - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express[14]
- Agartala - Firozpur Tripura Sundari Express
- New Tinsukia–Amritsar Express
- Dibrugarh–Chandigarh Express
- New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express
- Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express[15]
- Dibrugarh - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express[16]
- Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati[17]
- Silchar - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express[18]
- Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express
- Dibrugarh–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
- Guwahati–Jorhat Town Jan Shatabdi Express
- Guwahati - Dibrugarh Town Nagaland Express
- Rangiya–Silchar Express
- Guwahati - Mariani BG Express
- Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express
- Silchar - New Tinsukia Barak Brahmaputra Express
- Guwahati–Ledo Intercity Express
- Rangiya–New Tinsukia Express
- New Tinsukia - Darbhanga Jivacch Link Express
See also
References
- ↑ Indiarailinfo Lumding railway station
- ↑ Report on the administration of North East India (1921–22){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Mittal Publishers Distributors(1984)
- ↑ Socio Economic and Political Problems of Tea Garden Workers: A Study of Assam by S.N.Singh, Amarendra Narain, Purnendu Kumar, page 105, published in 2006, Template:ISBN, Mittal Publications, New Delhi
- ↑ IR History: Part III (1900–1947). IRFCA.
- ↑ Highlights of Railway Budget, 1997–98. Press Information Bureau.
- ↑ Lumding Dibrugarh GC Project. Process Register.
- ↑ Gauge conversion deadline now April 2015. The Times of India(25 March 2013). Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ↑ isSheds and workshops. IRFCA.
- ↑ Northeast Fontier Railway – Lumding Division{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Lumding Division
- ↑ New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia). indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via Moranhat). indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ Tiruvananthapuram-Silchar Aronai Express. indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ Silchar-Coimbatore Express. confirmtkt.com.
- ↑ Sealdah Agartala Kanchanjunga Express. indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ 15609⇒15909/Avadh Assam Express (PT). indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Guwahati Express via Katihar. indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ Dibrugarh Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati. indiarailinfo.com.
- ↑ Sealdah Silchar Kanchanjunga Express. indiarailinfo.com.