Alipurduar Junction railway station

Railway Station in West Bengal, India

Not to be confused with Alipurduar Railway Junction.

Alipurduar Junction

Regional Rail & Light Rail Station

Alipurduar Junction railway station

General information
Location| BF Road, Alipurduar, West Bengal
India
Coordinates| 26°31′25″N 89°32′01″E﻿ / ﻿26.5237°N 89.5335°E﻿ / 26.5237; 89.5335
Elevation| 53 metres (174 ft)
Owned by| Indian Railways
Operated by| Northeast Frontier Railway
Line(s)|

* New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line
* Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line

Platforms| 5
Tracks| 12
Connections| Auto-rickshaw & E-rickshaw
Construction
Structure type| At grade
Parking|  Available
Bicycle facilities|  Available
Accessible|  Yes
Other information
Status| Functioning
Station code| APDJ
Zone(s) | North East Frontier Railway
Division(s) | Alipurduar
History
Opened| 1901; 124 years ago (1901)
Electrified| Yes
Previous names|

* Cooch Behar State Railway
* Assam Bengal Railway

Passengers
30,000 per day ( high)

Location

Alipurduar Junction

Location in West Bengal

Alipurduar Junction is one of the four railway stations that serve Alipurduar city in Alipurduar district 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. An adjacent railway junction is New Alipurduar (station code NOQ).

## History

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The Cooch Behar State Railway built a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge railway from Geetaldaha on the Eastern Bengal Railway to Jainti in 1901. The line passed through Alipurduar. It was converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge in 1910.[citation needed]

With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, 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 229-kilometre long (142 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre-gauge railway linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj in Bihar via Alipurduar.[1] The first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.[2]

Now all the railway tracks in Alipurduar city are broad gauge.[citation needed]

## Other adjacent stations

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Two adjacent local railway stations are Alipurduar (station code APD) and Alipurduar Court (station code APDC). Long-distance trains do not stop there.[citation needed]

Most of the long-distance trains from other parts of India pass through and stop at New Alipurduar railway junction (station code NOQ) constructed in the 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2007.[2]

## See also

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* North Eastern Railway Connectivity Project
* North Western Railway zone

## References

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1. ^ "History of NFR". Northeast Frontier Railway. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
2. ^ a b Srivastava, V.P. "Role of Engineering Deptt in Meeting Corporate Objectives of Indian Railways" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

## External links

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* Alipurduar Junction railway station at the India Rail Info
* Alipurduar travel guide from Wikivoyage

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Alipurduar district topics

General|

* Buxa Tiger Reserve
* Buxa Fort
* Chilapata Forests
* Dooars
* Dooars-Terai tea gardens
* Jaldapara National Park
* North Bengal
* Terai
* Western Duars

Municipalities|

* Alipurduar

Community development blocks|

| Alipurduar subdivision|

* Madarihat-Birpara
* Alipurduar I
* Alipurduar II
* Falakata
* Kalchini
* Kumargram

|

Higher education|

* Alipurduar College

Rivers|

* Dharla
* Jaldhaka
* Teesta
* Torsha
* Kaljani

Transport|

* NH 17
* NH 31
* NH 317
* NH 27
* New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line
* New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section

Railway stations|

* Alipurduar Junction
* Buxa Road
* Samuktala Road Junction

Lok Sabha constituencies|

* Alipurduars

Vidhan Sabha constituencies|

* Kumargram
* Kalchini
* Alipurduars
* Falakata
* Madarihat

See also|

* Cities, towns and locations in Alipurduar district
* Villages in Alipurduar district

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* Akra
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South Eastern
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* Bero
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* Gourinathdham
* Haldia
* Jhalda
* Joychandi Pahar
* Madhukunda
* Muradi
* Purulia Junction
* Ramkanali Junction
* Santragachi Junction
* Shalimar
* Tikiapara
* Uluberia

North East Frontier
Railway|

* Adhikari
* Alipurduar Junction
* Balurghat
* Bamanhat
* Buniadpur
* Buxa Road
* Changrabandha
* Cooch Behar
* Dalkhola
* Darjeeling
* Daulatpur Hat
* Dhupguri
* Gangarampur
* Ghum
* Ghoksadanga
* Haldibari
* Jalpaiguri Road
* Malancha
* Mallickpurhat
* Mohitnagar
* New Alipurduar
* New Cooch Behar Junction
* New Gitaldaha
* New Jalpaiguri Junction
* New Maynaguri
* Radhikapur
* Raiganj
* Rampur Bazar
* Raninagar Jalpaiguri Junction
* Samuktala Road Junction
* Siliguri Junction
* Siliguri Town
* Sivok

Suburban rail
and urban transit|

* Kolkata Suburban Railway (Chord link
* Circular line
* Eastern line
* Sealdah South lines
* South Eastern line)
* Kolkata Metro

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