Английская Википедия:Fakiragram Junction railway station

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Indian English Шаблон:Infobox station 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:

• Guwahati - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Kaziranga Superfast Express
• Tambaram-Silghat Town Nagaon Express
• Sealdah–Agartala Kanchanjunga Express
• Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjunga Express
• Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Guwahati
• Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North
• Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail
• New Jalpaiguri - Bongaigaon Express
• Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express
• Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express
• Alipurduar–Kamakhya Intercity Express

History

Fakiragram railway station came up with the construction of the Golokganj–Amingaon railway line by Assam-Behar State Railway in the 1900–1910 period. During the period Assam was connected to the rest of India entirely through eastern Bengal.

In pre-independence days, there was a metre-gauge line Шаблон:Stnlnk–Шаблон:Stnlnk–Шаблон:Stnlnk–Шаблон:Stnlnk–Teesta–Шаблон:Stnlnk–Шаблон:Stnlnk–Fakiragram.

With the partition of India in 1947, the railway link to Assam through East Bengal was broken and Assam got delinked from the rest of India. Indian Railways took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a rail link between Fakiragram and Шаблон:Stnlnk. Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950.

Construction of the Шаблон:Convert-long Шаблон:Track gauge broad gauge in the Шаблон:Stnlnk–Jogighopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad-gauge railways to Assam.

Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge.

Electrification

Electrification of the Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati line was sanctioned in 2008. 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. The entire electrification project is scheduled to be completed by October, 2015.

Amenities

Fakiragram railway station has one double-bedded retiring room.