Samuktala Road Junction railway station
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Samuktala Road Junction | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | National Highway 31C, Distt: Alipurduar, West Bengal, PIN-736208 India | ||||
| Coordinates | 26°29′02″N 89°38′08″E / 26.4838°N 89.6355°ECategory:Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlasCategory:Coordinates on Wikidata | ||||
| Elevation | 48 metres (157 ft) | ||||
| System | Indian Railways junction station | ||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||
| Operated by | North East Frontier Railway | ||||
| Lines | New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | At grade | ||||
| Parking | Not required | ||||
| Bicycle facilities | Not available | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | SMTA | ||||
| Division(s) | Alipurduar | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1950 | ||||
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Samuktala Road Junction is a railway junction station in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, previously passing through eastern Bengal, were cut off from the rest of India. The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 and the first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The project was a 142-mile-long (229 km) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge line linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj.[1] The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.[2]
The broad-gauge line from New Jalpaiguri to Samuktala Road was added in the 1960s.[3]
References
- ↑ "History of NFR". Northeast Frontier Railway. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016.
- ↑ Srivastava, V.P. "Role of Engineering Deptt in Meeting Corporate Objectives of Indian Railways" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ↑ Boobyer, Alastair. "India: the complex history of the junctions at Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri". IRFCA. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
External links
| Preceding station |  Indian Railways |
Following station | ||
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| New Alipurduar | Northeast Frontier Railway zone | Kamakhyaguri | ||
| Alipurduar Junction | Northeast Frontier Railway zone | Terminus | ||
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