Dhubri is the terminal railway station on the Fakiragram–Dhubri branch line. It also links to the New Cooch Behar–Golokganj branch line. A new line is being laid to connect Dhubri with Jogighopa. It is located on the west bank of the

Brahmaputra The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Southwestern China, Northeastern India, and Bangladesh. It is known as Brahmaputra or Luit in Assamese, Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, and ...

Dhubri district Dhubri District (Pron:ˈdʊbri) is an administrative districts of Assam, district in the Indian state of Assam. Included within the Kamatapur Autonomous Council, the district headquarters are located at Dhubri town which is situated ~290 ...

in the Indian state of

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

. Important trains like

Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express The 15417 / 15418 Rajya Rani Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between and Silghat Town in India.This train is a part of Rajya Rani Express series from West Bengal & Assam stat ...

Siliguri–Dhubri Intercity Express The 15765 / 66 Siliguri Junction - Dhubri Intercity Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between of West Bengal and of Assam in India. It operates as train number 15765 from to a ...

are available from Dhubri. It lies under

Alipurduar railway division Alipurduar railway division is one of the five railway divisions under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway zone of the Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 15 January 1958 and its headquarter is located at Alipurduar i ...

Northeast Frontier Railway zone The Northeast Frontier Railway (abbreviated NFR) is one of the Zones and divisions of Indian Railways, 19 railway zones of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered in Maligaon, Guwahati in the state of Assam, and responsible for operation and e ...

Geography

Dhubri district occupies the south-west corner of Assam. It borders on Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Meghalaya. The Brahmaputra divides the district into two parts. Tributaries of the Brahmaputra such as Gangadhar, Gaurang, Tipkai, Champamoti in the north and Jinjiram, Jinari and Kaloo in the south are all major contributors of floods in the area.

History

The Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to

broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...

. Dhubri railway station had initially been opened in 1904. Flood waters had washed away the tracks in 1988. The long line was ready after gauge conversion in 2010. Up to the sixties there was a -wide

metre-gauge railway Metre-gauge railways ( US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and ...

link from Cooch Behar to Dhubri via Golokganj. It was then known as the Assam Line Railway Service. It also connected East Pakistan, even after partition. However, collapse of the rail-cum-road bridge over the Gadadhar in the seventies ended that link. The bridge has been rebuilt and the track laid again as broad gauge. Dhubri-New Jalpaiguri Inter-city Express via Alipurduar Jn was introduced in February 2012.

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