New Bongaigaon Junction railway station


NEW BONGAIGAON JUNCTION
General information
LocationDangtol Road, New Bongaigaon Railway Colony, New Bongaigaon-783381, Assam
 India
Coordinates26°28′33″N 90°33′47″E / 26.4757°N 90.5630°E / 26.4757; 90.5630
Elevation58 metres (190 ft)
SystemRegional Rail & Commuter Rail Station
OwnerIndian Railways
OperatorNortheast Frontier Railway
Lines
Platforms7 (1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Tracks12
ConnectionsAuto-rickshaw Stand, Taxi Stand
Construction
Structure type
At grade
ParkingParking Available
Cycle facilities
Bicycle facilities Available
AccessibleDisabled access Yes
Other information
StatusFunctioning
Station codeNBQ
Zone(s) Northeast Frontier
Division(s) Rangiya
History
Opened1965
Electrified Yes
Former namesAssam Bengal Railway
Passengers
50K/Day (Increase high)
Services
Waiting RoomCafeteriaCloak RoomElevatorCCTV SurveillanceWifiRetiring Room
Location
New Bongaigaon Junction is located in India
New Bongaigaon Junction
New Bongaigaon Junction
Location within India
New Bongaigaon Junction is located in Assam
New Bongaigaon Junction
New Bongaigaon Junction
Location within Assam
New Bongaigaon Junction is located in India
New Bongaigaon Junction
New Bongaigaon Junction
Location within India
Interactive map of New Bongaigaon Junction

New Bongaigaon Junction is an important railway junction station of Barauni–Guwahati line and New Bongaigaon–Jogihopa–Kamakhya line of Northeast Frontier Railway. It serves as the prime station for Bongaigaon District and is the one and only railway station in India which is located over the Tunia River. It is the largest railway station with Carriage & Wagon Workshop in Rangiya railway division. It is also Recognized as the second largest railway station in the Northeast region after Guwahati, and a major gateway of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone in Assam. Around 150 trains halt in this station and 6 trains originate and terminate at this station.

History

Construction of the 265 km (165 mi)-long 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge Siliguri–Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad-gauge railways to Assam. It also was the reason for setting up the New Bongaigaon railway station.[1]

A new railway track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984.[2]

Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carrying a metre-gauge track, which was later replaced by broad gauge.[3]

Electrification

Electrification of the Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati line was sanctioned in 2008.[4] In the document on Vision 2020 – A Blue Print for Railway Electrification Programme, in the list of ongoing projects the entire route km (836) is shown as balance work as on 1 April 2010.[5] The entire electrification project is scheduled to be completed by 2022.[6] As on 2026, The electrification project is completed in this station.

Track doubling

Doubling of the track between New Bongaigaon and Kamakhya via Rangia was approved in the Railway Budget for 2013–14.[7] A double-line track is there between Samuktala Road and New Bongaigaon.[6] Now, the double-line track has been extended to Guwahati both via the Rangiya Junction and Goalpara Town routes.

Amenities

New Bongaigaon Junction has two double-bedded retiring rooms, computerized railway reservation system, AC and Non-AC waiting rooms and vegetarian and non vegetarian food stalls.[8] It also has Free-WiFi facility.

Workshop

The Carriage and Wagon Workshop is located about 2 km west of New Bongaigaon railway station. It was set up in sixties and has maintenance, as well as manufacturing facilities.[9]

Major trains

  1. Kamakhya–Howrah Vande Bharat Sleeper Express
  2. New Jalpaiguri - Guwahati Vande Bharat Express
  3. Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)[10]
  4. Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express (Via Moranhat)[11]
  5. Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express (Via Rangapara North)[12]
  6. Sairang–Anand Vihar Terminal Rajdhani Express
  7. Agartala - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Humsafar Express[13]
  8. Naharlagun - Anand Vihar Terminal AC Superfast Express
  9. Kamakhya - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus AC Express
  10. Kamakhya - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal AC Superfast Express
  11. Dibrugarh - Gomti Nagar Amrit Bharat Express
  12. Guwahati - New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express
  13. Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express
  14. Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Express[14]
  15. Silchar - Coimbatore Express[15]
  16. Silchar - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express[16]
  17. Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Superfast Express
  18. New Tinsukia–Tambaram Express[17]
  19. New Tinsukia–Amritsar Express
  20. Dibrugarh - Kolkata Special Express
  21. Dibrugarh–Chandigarh Express
  22. Dibrugarh - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express[18]
  23. Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express[19]
  24. Dibrugarh–Kolkata Superfast Express
  25. Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati[20]
  26. Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North[21]
  27. Silghat Town - Tambaram Nagaon Express[22]
  28. Silghat Town - Kolkata Kaziranga Express
  29. Agartala - Firozpur Tripura Sundari Express
  30. Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express
  31. Sabroom - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express[23]
  32. New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express
  33. Dibrugarh–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
  34. Guwahati - Jammu Tawi Lohit Express[24]
  35. Guwahati- Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru Superfast Express[25]
  36. Guwahati - Bikaner Express[26][27]
  37. Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
  38. Guwahati - Barmer Express
  39. Silchar – Charlapalli Express
  40. Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express[28]
  41. Guwahati - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express[29]
  42. Guwahati-Howrah Saraighat Superfast Express
  43. Guwahati - Kolkata Garib Rath Express
  44. Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express[30]
  45. Kamakhya–Gandhidham Express
  46. Kamakhya - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Karmabhoomi Superfast Express.[31]
  47. Kamakhya–Rohtak Amrit Bharat Express
  48. Kamakhya - Charlapalli Amrit Bharat Express
  49. Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express[32]
  50. Kamakhya - Jodhpur, Bhagat Ki Kothi Express
  51. Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail[33]
  52. Kamakhya - Dr. Ambedkar Nagar Express[34]
  53. Kamakhya - Ranchi Express[35]
  54. Kamakhya - Puri Express via Howrah[36]
  55. Kamakhya - Puri Express (via Adra)
  56. Kamakhya–Gaya Express
  57. Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Express[37]
  58. Kamakhya - Anand Vihar Terminal Northeast Superfast Express
  59. Kamakhya - Gomti Nagar Express
  60. Kamakhya - Rajendra Nagar Terminal Capital Express[38]
  61. Kamakhya - Alipurduar Intercity Express
  62. New Jalpaiguri - Guwahati Intercity Express
  63. New Jalpaiguri - Bongaigaon Express
  64. Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express
  65. Alipurduar Jn. - Mariani Intercity Express
  66. Naharlagun - Hapa Special Express
  67. Naharlagun - Secundrabad AC Special Express
  68. Naharlagun - Santragachi Special Express
  69. Guwahati - Kanpur Central Special Express
  70. Agartala - Rani Kamalapati Special Express

See also

References

  1. ↑ Moonis Raza & Yash Aggarwal (1986). Transport Geography of India: Commodity Flow and the Regional Structure of Indian Economy. Concept Publishing Company, A-15/16 Commercial Block, Mohan Garden, New Delhi – 110059. ISBN 81-7022-089-0. Retrieved 12 May 2013. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "IR History: Part V (1970–1995)". IRFCA. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "50 years of Saraighat bridge". The Times of India. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "CCEA approves Rs. 506 crores for Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati section". Projects Today. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Vision 2020 – A Blue Print for Railway Electrification Programme" (PDF). Ministry of Railways, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Rajya Sabha unstarred question no. 1677 to be answered on 7 December 2012". Ministry of Railways. Archived from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Rail budget 2013: Wait for electric trains in India's North-East gets longer". First post economy. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "Retiring rooms in Northeast Frontier Railway". Indian Railways. Archived from the original on 19 November 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  9. ↑ "C&W Workshop, New Bongaigaon". C&W Workshop. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  10. ↑ "New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)". indiarailinfo.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via Moranhat)". indiarailinfo.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via Rangapara North)". indiarailinfo.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  13. ↑ "SMVT Bangalore-Agartala Humsafar Express". indiarailinfo.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  14. ↑ "Tiruvananthapuram-Silchar Aronai Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  15. ↑ "Silchar-Coimbatore Express". confirmtkt.com.
  16. ↑ "Sealdah Silchar Kanchanjunga Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  17. ↑ "New Tinsukia Tambaram Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  18. ↑ "Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Guwahati Express via Katihar". indiarailinfo.com.
  19. ↑ "15609⇒15909/Avadh Assam Express (PT)". indiarailinfo.com.
  20. ↑ "Dibrugarh Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati". indiarailinfo.com.
  21. ↑ "Dibrugarh Howrah Kamrup Express via Rangapara North". indiarailinfo.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  22. ↑ "Tambaram-Silghat Town Nagaon Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  23. ↑ "Sealdah Agartala Kanchanjunga Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  24. ↑ "Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Lohit Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  25. ↑ "Guwahati-Bengaluru Cantt Kaziranga Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  26. ↑ Mishra, Sudhanshu (25 March 2013). "Train without engine travels 20 km in Barmer". India Today. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  27. ↑ Bihar: AC coach of Guwahati-Bikaner Express derails after hitting truck
  28. ↑ "Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  29. ↑ "15647/Mumbai LTT - Guwahati Express (Via Malda Town) (PT)". indiarailinfo.com.
  30. ↑ "15655/Kamakhya - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  31. ↑ "Kamakhya Mumbai LTT Karmabhoomi Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  32. ↑ "Udaipur City Kamakhya Kavi Guru Express". indiarailinfo.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  33. ↑ "Dibrugarh Delhi Brahmaputra Mail". indiarailinfo.com.
  34. ↑ "19305/Dr. Ambedkar Nagar - Kamakhya Weekly Express (PT) - Indore to Kamakhya WR/Western Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  35. ↑ "15661/Ranchi - Kamakhya Weekly Express - Ranchi to Kamakhya NFR/Northeast Frontier Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  36. ↑ "Puri Kamakhya Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  37. ↑ "15621/Kamakhya - Anand Vihar Terminal Weekly Express (PT) - Kamakhya to Anand Vihar Terminal NFR/Northeast Frontier Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  38. ↑ "13248/Rajendra Nagar Terminal - Kamakhya Capital Express - Patna to Kamakhya ECR/East Central Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
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