Alipurduar Junction is one of the four railway stations that serve Alipurduar city in Alipurduar district in north Bengal 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 The Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line is an Indian railway line connecting with . This track is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway. History Cooch Behar State Railway The Cooch Behar State Railway (CBSR) was a narrow ga ...

. An adjacent railway junction is (station code NOQ).

Trains

The major trains operated by this station are:

Originating Trains

* Sealdah-Alipurduar Kanchan Kanya Express * Alipurduar - Secunderabad Express * Delhi Junction-Alipurduar Sikkim Mahananda Express *

Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express The 15417 / 15418 Rajya Rani Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between and Silghat Town in India.This train is a part of Rajya Rani Express series from West Bengal & Assam sta ...

* Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express *

Alipurduar–Kamakhya Intercity Express Alipurduar - Kamakhya Intercity Express is an intercity train of the Indian Railways connecting Alipurduar in West Bengal and Kamakhya in Assam. It is currently being operated with 15771/15772 train numbers on a daily basis. Service The 15771 ...

* Siliguri–Alipurduar Intercity Express *

New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar Tourist Special New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar Tourist Special is the tourist special Express trains in India that runs between New Jalpaiguri Junction and Alipurduar Junction in the Indian state of West Bengal. The train belongs to the Northeast Frontier Rail ...

Halting Trains

* Puri–Kamakhya Weekly Express (via Howrah) * Dr. Ambedkar Nagar–Kamakhya Express * Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Express * Kamakhya-Patna Capital Express * Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Kamakhya Karmabhoomi Express. * Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express *

Jhajha–Dibrugarh Weekly Express The Jhajha–Dibrugarh Weekly Express is an Express train belonging to Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between and in India, covering the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Nagaland and Assam. It is currently being operated w ...

* Udaipur City–Kamakhya Kavi Guru Express * Ranchi–Kamakhya Express * New Tinsukia–Bengaluru Weekly Express *

Siliguri Bamanhat Intercity Express Siliguri, ) is a major tier-II city in West Bengal. It forms "Twin Cities" with the neighboring district capital of Jalpaiguri. The city spans areas of the Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts in the Indian state of West Bengal. Known as the ' ...

History

The Cooch Behar State Railway built a

narrow-gauge railway A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard-gauge railway, standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum r ...

from Geetaldaha on the

Eastern Bengal Railway The Eastern Bengal Railway (full name: "Eastern Bengal Railway Company"; shortened EBR) was one of the pioneering railway companies that operated from 1857 to 1942, in Bengal and Assam provinces of British India. History Formation The Eastern ...

to Jainti in 1901. The line passed through Alipurduar. It was converted to

metre gauge Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre. The metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by European colonial powers, such as the French, British and German Empires. In Europe, la ...

in 1910. With the

partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...

in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of

North Bengal North Bengal ( bn, উত্তরবঙ্গ/উত্তর বাংলা) is a term used for the north-western part of Bangladesh and northern part of West Bengal. The Bangladesh part denotes the Rajshahi Division and Rangpur Division. Gen ...

, 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 metre-gauge railway linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj in Bihar via Alipurduar. The first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The route was converted to

broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union (CIS ...

in 2003–2006. Now all the railway tracks in Alipurduar city are broad gauge.

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. Most of the long-distance trains from other parts of India pass through and stop at New Alipurdur railway junction (station code NOQ) constructed in 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. 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. Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to

in 2007.

References

External links

Trains at Alipurduar Junction
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