Alipurduar Junction railway station

26°31′25″N 89°32′01″E / 26.5237°N 89.5335°E / 26.5237; 89.5335Elevation53 metres (174 ft)Owned byIndian RailwaysOperated byNortheast Frontier RailwayLine(s)

• New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line
• Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line

Platforms5Tracks12ConnectionsAuto-rickshaw & E-rickshawConstructionStructure typeStandard on GroundParking AvailableBicycle facilities AvailableAccessible YesOther informationStatusFunctioningStation codeAPDJ Zone(s) North East Frontier Railway Division(s) AlipurduarHistoryOpened1901; 123 years ago (1901)ElectrifiedYesPrevious names

• Cooch Behar State Railway
• Assam Bengal Railway

Passengers30,000 per day ( high) Location

Alipurduar Junction is one of the four railway stations that serve Alipurduar city in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its station code is APDJ and it lies in New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line and Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line. An adjacent railway junction is New Alipurduar (station code NOQ).

History

The Cooch Behar State Railway built a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge railway from Geetaldaha on the Eastern Bengal Railway to Jainti in 1901. The line passed through Alipurduar. It was converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge in 1910.^{[citation needed]}

With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, earlier passing through the eastern part of Bengal, were completely cut off from the rest of India. The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 to construct a 229-kilometre long (142 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre-gauge railway linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj in Bihar via Alipurduar.^[1] The first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.^[2]

Now all the railway tracks in Alipurduar city are broad gauge.^{[citation needed]}

Other adjacent stations

Two adjacent local railway stations are Alipurduar (station code APD) and Alipurduar Court (station code APDC). Long-distance trains do not stop there.^{[citation needed]}

Most of the long-distance trains from other parts of India pass through and stop at New Alipurduar railway junction (station code NOQ) constructed in the early 1950s as it is connected with double track to Assam and the rest of Bengal. The older Alipurduar station was on metre-gauge track that was converted to broad gauge much later in 2006 and fewer trains pass through Alipurduar station.^{[citation needed]}

The two junctions are on different lines and only one short-distance train Alipurduar–Kamakhya InterCity Express (train number 15471) runs between the two junctions.^{[citation needed]}

Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2007.^[2]

References

External links

• Alipurduar Junction railway station at the India Rail Info
• Alipurduar travel guide from Wikivoyage