Barsoi Junction railway station
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| Location | State Highway 65, Barsoi, Bihar India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°39′03″N 87°55′21″E / 25.6509°N 87.9226°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 37 metres (121 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | North East Frontier Railway (NFR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Standard on ground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Available | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Station code | BOE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zone(s) | NFR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division(s) | Katihar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Assam Behar State Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi town and katihar city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a major and very important railway station having stoppages of premium trains like Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express and New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express.
History
Assam Behar State Railway extended the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre-gauge railway 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 Radhikapur, near the Bangladesh border.[1]
In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi.[2][3] The railway lines in the area started being converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge from the early 1960s.[3]
Amenities
Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room[clarification needed].[4]
Trains
Following major trains are available from Barsoi Junction railway station:
- Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express
- New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express
- Kamakhya–SMVT Bengaluru AC Superfast Express
- Kamakhya - Ranchi Express
- New Jalpaiguri - Chennai Superfast Express
- Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail
- New Tinsukia - Chennai Tambaram Express
- Silghat Town - Chennai Tambaram Nagaon Express
- Silchar–Secunderabad Express
- Dibrugarh - Mumbai LTT Express
- Sealdah - Alipurduar Kanchan Kanya Express
- Kolkata–Radhikapur Express
- New Jalpaiguri - Digha Paharia Express
- Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Terminal North East Express
- Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express
- Howrah - Radhikapur Kulik Express
- Siliguri Town - Jogbani Intercity Express
- Siliguri Junction - Katihar Intercity Express
- Siliguri Junction - Balurghat Intercity Express
- Dibrugarh - Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express
- New Jalpaiguri-Rajendra Nagar Capital Express
- Kamakhya - Rajendra Nagar Capital Express
- New Jalpaiguri–Malda Town Express
- Sealdah–Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express
- Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjungha Express
- New Jalpaiguri–Amritsar Karmabhoomi Express
- Kamakhya - Puri Express
- Alipurduar - Delhi Sikkim Mahananda Express
- Guwahati - SMVT Bengaluru Kaziranga Superfast Express
- Sealdah - New Alipurduar Teesta Torsha Express
- Siliguri - Radhikapur Express
- Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
- Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express
- Dibrugarh - Deogarh Express
- Kishanganj–Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express
References
- ^ "IR History:Early days II". 1870–1899. IRFCA. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "IR History: Part IV (1947–1970)". IRFCA. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ a b Alastair Boobyer. "India: the complex history of the junctions at Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri". IRFCA. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "Retiring rooms in Northeast Frontier Railway". Indian Railways. Archived from the original on 1 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
External links
- Barsoi Junction railway station at the India Rail Info
| Preceding station |  Indian Railways
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Following station | ||
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| Mukuria towards ?
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Northeast Frontier Railway zone | Khempur towards ?
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| Terminus | Northeast Frontier Railway zone | Dachna towards ?
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