Badarpur railway station

Badarpur
Indian Railway Station
Location Barak valley, Badarpur, Karimganj District, Assam
 India
Coordinates 24°51′56″N 92°33′24″E / 24.8656°N 92.5567°E / 24.8656; 92.5567
Elevation 23 m (75 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Operated by North East Frontier Railway
Line(s) Lumding-Badarpur section
Platforms 3
Tracks 5
Construction
Parking Available
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code BPB
Zone(s) North East Frontier Railway
Division(s) Lumding railway division
History
Opened 1898
Electrified No
Location
Badarpur railway station
Location in Assam

Badarpur railway station belongs to Lumding railway division of North East Frontier Railway. It is located in the state of Assam.

History

Assam Bengal Railway was incorporated in 1892 to serve British-owned tea plantations in Assam.[1] The railway line from Chittagong to Badarpur was opened to traffic in 1898.[2] In 1942 the management of Assam Bengal Railway was transferred to the Govt of India. It was amalgamated with the state managed Eastern Bengal Railway and designated as Bengal Assam Railway .[1]

On 1 January 1942 the Assam Bengal Railway combined with the Eastern Bengal Railway to form the Bengal and Assam Railway.[3][4] At time of the independence of India in 1947, Bengal-Assam Railway was split up and the portion of the system, about 2,603.92 km long which fell within the boundary of erstwhile East Pakistan was named as Eastern Bengal Railway, the control remaining with the central Government of Pakistan. Later, with the effect from 1 February 1961, Eastern Bengal Railway was renamed as Pakistan Railway.[3]

Successors

With the partition of India in 1947, portions of the Bengal Assam Railway which lay in Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal became Assam Railway. North Eastern Railway was formed in 1952 by amalgamating Assam Railway with Oudh Tirhut Railway and Fatehgarh district of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. Northeast Fronter Railway was carved out of North Eastern Railway in 1958.[1][5]

The portion of the system which fell within the boundary of erstwhile East Pakistan was named as Eastern Bengal Railway. On 1 February 1961, Eastern Bengal Railway was renamed as Pakistan Railway and in 1962 it became Pakistan Eastern Railway .[6] With the emergence of Bangladesh, it became Bangladesh Railway.[7]

After the independence of Pakistan on 15 August 1947 the broad-gauge portion of the Bengal-Assam Railway, lying in India was added to the East Indian Railway and the metre-gauge portion became the Assam Railway,[8] with its headquarters at Pandu. On 14 April 1952, the 2857 km long Assam Railway and the Oudh and Tirhut Railway were amalgamated to form one of the six newly carved zones of the Indian Railways: the North Eastern Railway (India).[9][10] On the same day, the reorganized Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway (which was added to the East Indian Railway earlier) was amalgamated with the Eastern Railway.[11]

Project Unigauge

As announced by the Government of India for Gauge conversion of Lumding-Badarpur-Silchar-Jiribham and Badarpur-Kumarghat lines. Initial construction on these sections started in December 2009. Later Lumding-Badarpur section was closed to traffic for 18 months from 1 October 2014.[12] It was expected to be opened for traffic in April 2015.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 R.P. Saxena. "Indian Railway History timeline". Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  2. ↑ S.N. Singh, Amarendra Narain, Purnendu Kumar. "Socio Economic and Political Problems of Tea Garden Workers: A Study of Assam, Published 2006, ISBN 81-8324-098-4". p. 105. Mittal Publications, New Delhi. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  3. 1 2 History, Bangladesh Railway, People's Republic of Bangladesh, Retrieved: 2007-01-11
  4. ↑ Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, p.37
  5. ↑ "History". Northeast Frontier Railway. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  6. ↑ "History". Bangladesh Railways. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  7. ↑ "Railway". Banglapaedia. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  8. ↑ Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, p.39
  9. ↑ "Chapter 1 - Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background". Ministry of Railways, India website.
  10. ↑ Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.42-3
  11. ↑ "Sealdah division-Engineering details". The Eastern Railway, Sealdah division.
  12. ↑ "Lumding Badarpur line". IRFCA.
  13. ↑ "expected date".
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