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Uttar Banga Express
The 13147 / 48 – ''Uttar Banga Express'' is an Express trains in India, Express train belonging to Indian Railways – Eastern Railway zone that runs between Sealdah & Bamanhat via Siliguri in India. Uttar Banga Express was one of the two trains involved in the famous Sainthia train collision at Sainthia, West Bengal. It operates as train number 13147 from Sealdah to Bamanhat and as train number 13148 in the reverse direction, serving the state of West Bengal. Uttar Banga translates to North Bengal in Bengali language. Coaches The 13147 / 48 Sealdah–Bamanhat Uttar Banga Express presently has 1 HA1 AC 1/2 tier, 1 AC 2 tier, 3 AC 3 tier, 9 Sleeper class, 3 General Unreserved & 2 SLR (Seating cum Luggage Rake) coaches. It does not have a pantry car. As is customary with most train services in India, coach composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand. Service The 13147 Sealdah–Bamanhat Uttar Banga Express covers the distance of 693 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Express Trains In India
Express trains are express rail services of India. Express trains make a small number of stops, unlike ordinary passenger or local trains. Because of their limited stops, these trains are able to obtain the highest speeds of any trains in India. An express train is one where the average speed, excluding halts, is greater than 42 km/h. Including halts the average speed often is below 42 km/h. Although this is pretty slow as compared to international standards, the "Express" trains here mean faster than the ordinary passenger and local trains. In some cases, trains run express where there is an overlapping passenger train service available, and run as passenger train, where there is no supplemental passenger service. Superfast Superfast trains are express trains which make still fewer stops, as compared to ordinary express trains, achieving still shorter journey times. Tickets cost more than ordinary express trains as they have "superfast surcharge" added to them. Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samsi Railway Station
Samsi railway station is a station on the Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line in Malda district of West Bengal, India. It is situated in North East Frontier Zone in Katihar railway division of India. Trains Major Trains available from this railway station are as follows: * Delhi Junction - Kamakhya Brahmaputra Mail * Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati * Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North * Sealdah–Silchar Kanchenjunga Express * Sealdah–Agartala Kanchenjunga Express * Sealdah-New Alipurdiar Teesta Torsha Express * Sealdah Saharsha Hate Bazare Express * Kolkata–Radhikapur Express * Kolkata–Jogbani Express * Howrah Katihar Express * New Jalpaiguri -Malda Town Express New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ... * Howrah Radhikapur Kul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Loco Shed, Howrah
Electric Loco Shed, Howrah is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Howrah of the Eastern Railway zone in West Bengal, India. It is one of the two electric locomotive sheds of the Eastern Railway, the others being at Asansol (ASN). there are 150 locomotives in the shed. History Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Howrah until the late 1970s. After Eastern Railway set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the steam locomotive sheds was decommissioned. To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad-gauge lines from Kolkata to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Howrah was selected by Indian Railways for a new electric locomotive shed. New electric locomotive shed was inaugurated in the late 2001s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamanhat Railway Station
Bamanhat railway station serves the town of Bamanhat lying in Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line, Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The station lies under Alipurduar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. Trains Major trains * Sealdah-Bamanhat Uttar Banga Express *Siliguri Bamanhat Intercity Express. Apart from these major trains, some local and DEMU trains too originates from Bamanhat and connects different parts of North Bengal. History Before partition of India in 1947, there was a rail link to Lalmonirhat Junction, now in Bangladesh, through Geetaldaha and Mogalhat. Even in 1955 the line was there when there were talks between India and Pakistan for resumption of rail links. Up to the 1960s there was a railway link from to via . It was then known as the Assam Line Railway Service. The links were disturbed with bridges being washed away. The entire area had metre-gauge tracks. Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhupguri Railway Station
Dhupguri Railway Station is one of the major railway station between New Jalpaiguri & New Cooch Behar which serves the city of Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. The station lies on the New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line of Northeast Frontier Railway. The station lies on Alipurduar railway division. Trains No of halting trains: 52 Major trains * Silchar-Coimbatore Superfast Express * Silchar-Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express *Lokmanya Tilak Terminus - Dibrugarh Express *Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express * Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express *Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Guwahati Express * Guwahati - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal, Kaziranga Superfast Express * Tambaram-Silghat Town Nagaon Express * Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express * Jammu-Guwahati Lohit Express *Dibrugarh–Tambaram Express * Sealdah–Agartala Kanchenjunga Express * Sealdah–Silchar Kanchenjunga Express * Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalpaiguri Road Railway Station
Jalpaiguri Road railway station is one of the railway station which serves Jalpaiguri city in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The others are: Jalpaiguri City, Mohitnagar/Jalpaiguri Halt, and The station is a newly built-up station connecting the Barauni–Guwahati line and the New Mal–New Changrabandha–New Cooch Behar line. History During the British period all connections from southern parts of Bengal to North Bengal were through the eastern part of Bengal. From 1878, the railway route from Kolkata, then called Calcutta, was in two laps. The first lap was a 185 km journey along the Eastern Bengal State Railway from Calcutta Station (later renamed Sealdah) to Damookdeah Ghat on the southern bank of the Padma River, then across the river in a ferry and the second lap of the journey. A 336 km metre-gauge line of the North Bengal Railway linked Saraghat on the northern bank of the Padma to Siliguri via Jalpaiguri. The 1.8 km long Hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jalpaiguri Junction Railway Station
New Jalpaiguri Junction railway station (station code NJP) established in 1960, is an A1 category broad gauge and narrow-gauge railway station under Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is the largest as well as the busiest railway junction of Northeast India. This junction is largest among the railway stations which serves the city of Siliguri, the largest metropolis of the North Bengal. The other stations are- Siliguri Junction, , Bagdogra, Matigara, and . New Jalpaiguri junction ranked 10th cleanest railway station in India in 2016 survey and came among the top 100 booking stations of Indian railway. New Jalpaiguri, as a railway station serves as the entry point to North Bengal, Sikkim, other countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the seven northeastern states (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya). New Jalpaiguri Junction acts as a connecting base for the Northeastern states to the Indian mainland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aluabari Road Junction Railway Station
Aluabari Road Junction railway station is a junction railway station on Katihar–Siliguri branch of Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line in the Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is situated beside National Highway 27 (India) at Islampur of Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. This railway station connects the Alubari–Siliguri branch line and New Farakka–New Jalpaiguri line. Total 35 express and passenger trains stop at Aluabari Road Junction railway station in a day. Trains Following trains are available from this station: * Sealdah-Alipurduar Kanchan Kanya Express * Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express *Sealdah–Agartala Kanchanjungha Express * Delhi-Alipurduar Mahananda Express * Balurghat–Siliguri Intercity Express The 15463/64 Balurghat – Siliguri Junction Intercity Express is an Superfast Express trains in India, Express train belonging to Indian Railways Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kishanganj Railway Station
Kishanganj railway station serves Kishanganj city in Kishanganj district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is one of the important railway station, as it lies on the important railway lines, they are Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line, Katihar–Siliguri line, and Barauni–Guwahati line. The famous Gaisal train disaster occurred at Gaisal railway station near Kishanganj. History Darjeeling Himalayan Railway extended its -wide narrow-gauge line from Siliguri to Kishanganj in 1915. In 1948–50, the Kishanganj branch of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was taken over for the purpose of completing the Assam Rail Link project, converted to and connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi. The railway lines in the area started being converted to -wide broad gauge from the early 1960s. Amenities Kishanganj railway station has the following amenities: computerized railway reservation system, waiting room, free google wifi, retiring room vegetarian and non-vegetarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
