Barsoi_Junction_railway_station

Barsoi Junction railway station

Barsoi Junction railway station

Railway station in Bihar

Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi town and katihar city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a major and very important railway station having stoppages of premium trains like Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express and New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express.

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History

Assam Behar State Railway extended the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre-gauge railway from Parbatipur, now in Bangladesh, to Katihar in 1889. The connection was truncated with the partition of India in 1947, and the line now runs up to Radhikapur, near the Bangladesh border.[1]

In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi.[2][3] The railway lines in the area started being converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge from the early 1960s.[3]

Amenities

Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room[clarification needed].[4]

Trains

Following major trains are available from Barsoi Junction railway station:

References

  1. [1]
    "IR History:Early days II". 1870–1899. IRFCA. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  2. [2]
    "IR History: Part IV (1947–1970)". IRFCA. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  3. [3]
    Alastair Boobyer. "India: the complex history of the junctions at Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  4. [4]
    "Retiring rooms in Northeast Frontier Railway". Indian Railways. Archived from the original on 1 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
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