Barsoi Junction | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Indian Railways junction 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Standard on ground | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Available | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar.
History[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room[clarification needed].[4]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "IR History:Early days II". 1870–1899. IRFCA. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ↑ "IR History: Part IV (1947–1970)". IRFCA. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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[edit | edit source]
| Preceding station | Indian Railways | Following station | ||
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toward ? | Northeast Frontier Railway zone | toward ? |
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| Terminus | Northeast Frontier Railway zone | toward ? |