Mogalhat ( bn, মোগলহাট) is a border railway station in Bangladesh, situated in
Lalmonirhat District
Lalmonirhat ( bn, লালমনিরহাট জেলা, ''Lalmonirhat Jela'' also ''Lalmonirhat Zila'') is a district, situated at the northern border of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rangpur Division. Lalmonirhat mahakuma was establishe ...
, in
Rangpur Division
Rangpur Division ( bn, রংপুর বিভাগ) is one of the Divisions in Bangladesh. It was formed on 25 January 2010, as Bangladesh's 7th division. Before that, it was under Rajshahi Division. The Rangpur division consists of eight di ...
. It is a defunct railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border.
History
By the turn of the nineteenth century
Lalmonirhat railway station
Lalmonirhat () is a railway junction in Lalmonirhat District of Rangpur Division in Bangladesh.
History
North Bengal State Railway opened a metre gauge line from Parbatipur to Kaunia in 1879. Two narrow gauge lines were laid by Eastern Benga ...
had emerged as an important railway centre. Bengal Dooars Railway constructed a line to Malbazar. Cooch Behar State Railway constructed the Geetaldaha-Jayanti narrow gauge line. Links were established with Assam, with the Golokganj-Amingaon line coming up. In pre-independence days, a metre gauge line running via
Radhikapur
Radhikapur is a village and a gram panchayat in Kaliaganj CD block in Raiganj subdivision of Uttar Dinajpur district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a border checkpoint on the Bangladesh-India border.
Geography Location
Radhikapur i ...
,
Biral,
Parbatipur, Tista,
Gitaldaha
Gitaldaha is a village and a gram panchayat in the Dinhata I CD block in the Dinhata subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Gitaldaha is located at .
Gitaldaha I and Gitaldaha II are g ...
and
Golokganj
Golokganj (also spelt as Golakganj or Galakganj) is a census town in Dhubri district in the Indian state of Assam. Golakganj is one of the historical places of Dhubri district.
Geography
Golakganj is located at . It has an average elevation of ...
connected
Fakiragram
Fakiragram is a railway station on the New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line and is located in Kokrajhar district in the Indian state of Assam. A branch line from Fakiragram connects to Dhubri.
Trains
Major Trains: ...
in Assam with
Katihar
Katihar is a city situated in the eastern part of the state of Bihar in India. It is the regional headquarter of Katihar district. It is one of the important cities of Bihar. Also it's a main route of Delhi - Guwahati railway line.
History
Ka ...
in Bihar.
The Mogalhat-Geetaldaha link was there in 1955, when Pakistan and India signed an agreement regarding resumption of rail traffic.
Subsequently, a part of the bridge across the
Dharla River
The Dharla River ( bn, ধরলা নদী, translit=Dhorola nodi) is a tributary of Brahmaputra which is a trans-boundary river flowing through India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It originates from Kupup/Bitang lake lying in Pangolakha Wildlife ...
at was washed away transforming Mogalhat-Geetaldaha, a defunct railway transit point.
Note: The map below presents the position as it stands today (2020). The international border was not there when the railways were first laid in the area in the 19th-20th century. It came up in 1947. Since then, it has been an effort to live up to the new realities. The map is 'Interactive' (the larger version) - it means that all the places shown in the map are linked in the full screen map.
References
Railway stations in Lalmonirhat District
Former railway stations in Bangladesh
Railway stations in Bangladesh opened in the 19th century
Railway stations opened in 1896
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