Burimari

Burimari railway station

Burimari railway station

Railway station in Lalmonirhat District, Bangladesh

Burimari (Bengali: বুড়িমারী) is a border railway station in Bangladesh, situated in Lalmonirhat District, in Rangpur Division. It is a land border crossing point and a defunct railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border. The corresponding point on the Indian side is Changrabandha in Cooch Behar district.[1]

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History

The Lalmonirhat-Malbazar metre gauge line was developed by the Bengal Dooars Railway in the closing years of the nineteenth century.[2] With the partition of India in 1947, the Indian side of the line terminated at Changrabandha and the Pakistani side, later Bangladeshi side, at Burimari.[3]

Present status

The line between New Mal Jn. and Changrabandha is now (2016) converted to broad gauge. A pair of DMUs have been introduced on this route from Siliguri to Changrabandha via New Mal Jn from 20 January 2016.[4]

The Karotoa Express runs daily between Burimari to Santahare Junction [via Gaibandha-Bogura) and Lalmonirhat railway station. There are 1 local and 2 commuter trains daily between Burimari and Lalmonirhat-Rangpur-Perbottipur.[5][6][7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Introducing Burimari". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on 21 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Bengal Dooars Railway". Fibis. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Geography - International". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  4. [4]
    "Train running on the newly converted New Mal Junction-Changrabandha to start". North East Frontier Railway. Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Lalmonirhat-burimari Route -45 trains derail in 5 months - Lack of sleepers, stone makes the run-down track risky". The Daily Star. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
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    "Tk 14,531 crore BR projects to double capacity". Priyo.com. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  7. [7]
    "Inter-city trains from Lalmonirhat". Bangladesh Railway. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
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