Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi city in

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in the Indian state of

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. It is a major and very important railway station having stoppages of premium trains like

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and

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History

Assam Behar State Railway extended the -wide

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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

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, near the Bangladesh border. In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the

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–

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sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi. The railway lines in the area started being converted to broad gauge from the early 1960s.

Amenities

Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room.

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* {{Railway stations in Bihar Railway stations in Katihar district Katihar railway division Railway junction stations in Bihar Railway stations in India opened in 1889 1889 establishments in British India