Bairabi railway station

Railway station in Mizoram, India

24°11′46″N 92°32′28″E / 24.1960°N 92.5412°E / 24.1960; 92.5412Elevation48 metres (157 ft)Owned byIndian RailwaysLine(s)Bairabi Sairang Railway
Katakhal–Bairabi linePlatforms3Tracks4ConnectionsAuto standConstructionStructure typeStandard (on-ground station)Platform levelsAt groundParkingNoBicycle facilitiesNoAccessibleYesOther informationStatusOperational single line diesel 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gaugeStation codeBHRBFare zoneNortheast Frontier Railway zoneHistoryOpened1899 ^[1]Closed2013Rebuilt2016ElectrifiedNo

Bairabi railway station serves Bairabi city in Kolasib district, Mizoram. Its code is BHRB. The station consists of 3 platforms. Bairabi is one of the railhead of Mizoram and connected with a broad-gauge line. The 84.25 km broad-gauge railway line from Katakhal Junction to Bairabi, was completed on 21 March 2016.^[2]

Future development plans

Bairabi Sairang Railway is a proposed railway line from Bairabi station to Sairang railway station near Aizawl with an estimated cost of Rs 2,384 crore.^[3] An estimated 28 hectares (69 acres) of land is required for the construction of 51 kilometres (32 mi) long Bairabi-Sairang rail line. The Bairabi-Sairang rail link will require construction of 130 bridges, 23 tunnels and four stations namely Hortoki, Kawnpui, Mualkhang and Sairang.^[4]^[5] The cost of Construction from Bairabi to Sairang is estimated at 2384 Crores.^[6] As of August 2019, the 60% work is complete, and the revised expected deadline is December 2021.^{[citation needed]}
Future line development plan entails extending the line from Aizawl to south to Zochawchhuah (India)-Zorinpui (Myanmar) on the India–Myanmar border, from where it will then be extended to 90 km-long "Sittwe-Kyaukhtu railway to connect it to Sittwe Port as part of Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project. "Zochawchhuah(Zorinpui)-Sairang railway" in India, survey for the 375 km line rail line from Sairang (Aizawl) to Hmawngbuchhuah on border near Zochawchhuah–Zorinpui was completed in August 2017 and it will be constructed in future phase.^[7] Kyaukhtu–Zorinpui railway line is 200 km long planned but not yet surveyed line.
Other future extension spur is from Aizawl to east of Zokhawthar. Future line development plan entails extending the line from Imphal to Moreh on the India–Myanmar border, from where it will then be extended to the existing railhead at Kalay (also called Kale and Kalemyo) in Myanmar to form part of the ambitious Trans-Asian Railway.

References

^ "Metre-gauge railway line fades into history after 115 years". Deccan Herald. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2018. (Dead link, July 2., 2020)
^ Kashyap, Samudra Gupta (21 March 2016). "Sanctioned in 2000, broad-gauge train reaches Mizoram after 16 years". Indian Express. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ "Bairabi-Sairang BG rail link". The Assam Tribune. 24 June 2016. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
^ PTI. "Broad gauge track project in Mizoram". CNN IBN Live. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
^ RC Acharya (21 March 2016). "Binding India with ribbons of steel". Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ "Bairabi-Sairang rêl kawng siam March 2020-ah zawh tum a ni". Vanglaini.org (in Mizo). Retrieved 10 March 2017.
^ India's north east opened up Archived 27 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine, PowerUpConstruction.Com