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Rangiya–Silchar Express
Rangiya–Silchar Express is an Express trains in India, Express train belonging to Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways that connects Rangiya and Silchar of Assam via Guwahati. This train is a replacement of previous train, ''Silchar - Guwahati Passenger Special'', for the same route & on the same timings. The train makes its main halt at Badarpur Junction railway station, Badarpur Junction & Lumding Junction railway station, Lumding Junction for 10 mins and 15 mins respectively & loco/rake reversals also take place at these Stations. The train runs with SGUJ/WDP-4 & NGC/WDM-3A/Twins. From 4 September 2023, the train was extended to Rangiya Junction railway station, Rangiya Junction. Background This train was inaugurated on 1 February 2018, from Guwahati flagged off by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways for more connectivity between Silchar and Guwahati. Service Frequency of this train is six days of week and it covers a distance of with an average speed of on b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 expansion of rail network all across Northeast India, Northeastern states and some districts of eastern Bihar and northern West Bengal. Divisions Northeast Frontier Railway is divided into 5 divisions: * Katihar railway division * Alipurduar railway division * Lumding railway division * Rangiya railway division * Tinsukia railway division Each of these divisions is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager, a Senior Administrative Grade officer of the rank of Joint Secretary to Government of India. The departmental setup at headquarters level and divisional setup in the field assists the General Manager in running the railways. Various departments namely engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal & telecom, operations, commercial, safety, acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumding Junction Railway Station
Lumding Junction Railway Station serves the Indian city of Lumding in Assam. It is the divisional headquarter of Lumding railway division of NFR. It is located in Hojai district. It is the 2nd biggest railway station of Lumding railway division, after . It is one of the oldest railway station in India built under Assam Bengal Railway. It consists of 5 platforms with a total of 68 halting trains & 3 originating trains. The station consists of double diesel line. History In the pre- partition days, Assam was linked to Chittagong through the Akhaura–Kulaura–Chhatak line and Akhaura–Laksam–Chittagong line. The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port. Assam Bengal Railway started construction of a railway track on the eastern side of Bengal in 1891. A track between Chittagong and Comilla Comilla (), officially spelled Cumilla, is a metropolis on the banks of the Gomti River in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Transport In Assam
Rail or rails may refer to: Rail transport *Rail transport and related matters *Railway track or railway lines, the running surface of a railway Arts and media Film * ''Rails'' (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini * ''Rail'' (1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films * ''Rail'' (2024 film), a Tamil-language film Magazines * ''Rail'' (magazine), a British rail transport periodical * ''Rails'' (magazine), a former New Zealand based rail transport periodical Other arts *The Rails, a British folk-rock band * Rail (theater) or batten, a pipe from which lighting, scenery, or curtains are hung Technology *Rails framework or Ruby on Rails, a web application framework *Rail system (firearms), a mounting system for firearm attachments *Front engine dragster *Runway alignment indicator lights, a configuration of an approach lighting system *Rule Augmented Interconnect Layout, a specification for expressing guidelines for printed circuit boards; companion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALCO DL560C
The ALCO DL560C is a series of diesel–electric locomotive with AC electric transmission designed by the American Locomotive Company and produced under license by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) Varanasi, India for Indian Railways as their classes Indian locomotive class WDM-2, WDM-2, Indian locomotive class WDM-3A, WDM-3A/2C, Indian locomotive class WDM-3D, WDM-3D and Indian locomotive class WDG-2/3A, WDG-3A for operation in India. The locomotive is fitted with a 16-cylinder ALCO 251 B, C diesel engine. In the early 1960s Indian Railways needed a reliable Diesel locomotive, diesel workhorse to gradually replace its steam locomotive fleet. Equal numbers (40 each) of ALCO's DL560C and EMD's EMD G16, G16 were chosen for trials. More locomotives of each of these were purchased for more trials. Indian Railways was keen on producing these locomotives in the country rather than depending on imports. Electro-Motive Diesel, EMD did not agree for a Transfer-of-Technology, while American Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katakhal Junction Railway Station
Katakhal Junction railway station is a main railway station in Hailakandi district, Assam. Its code is KTX. It serves Katakhal town. The station consists of two platforms. Major trains * Dullavcherra–Badarpur Passenger * Dullavcherra–Silchar Fast Passenger * Maishashan–Silchar Passenger * Silchar–Bhairabi Passenger *Rangiya–Silchar Express Rangiya–Silchar Express is an Express trains in India, Express train belonging to Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways that connects Rangiya and Silchar of Assam via Guwahati. This train is a replacement of previous train, ''Silc ... * Silchar–Dharmanagar Passenger References Railway stations in Hailakandi district Lumding railway division Railway junction stations in Assam {{Assam-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hojai Railway Station
Hojai railway station is a railway station in Hojai district, Assam, India. Its code is HJI. It serves Hojai town. The station consists of three platforms. The platform is well sheltered. Major Trains # New Delhi - Agartala Tejas Rajdhani Express # Agartala - Firozpur Tripura Sundari Express # Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express # Silchar–Coimbatore Superfast Express #Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express # Dibrugarh–Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express # Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati # Agartala–Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express # Dibrugarh–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express # New Tinsukia–Amritsar Express # Dibrugarh–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express # Rangiya–Silchar Express # Guwahati–Dullabcherra Express # Guwahati–Dibrugarh Town Nagaland Express #Guwahati–Jorhat Town Jan Shatabdi Express # BG Express, Guwahati–Mariani BG Express #Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express # Guwahati–Ledo Intercity Express #Rangiya–New Tinsukia Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piyush Goyal
Piyush Vedprakash Goyal (born 13 June 1964) is an Indian politician who is serving as Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), Minister of Commerce and Industry since 2019. He also served as Minister of Textiles (India), Minister of Textiles and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. He was elevated to the Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. Formerly a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra, he is also the former Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha. Goyal was elected as member of Lok Sabha, 18th Lok Sabha Representing Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency. He is married to Seema Goyal and has two children, Dhruv Goyal and Radhika Goyal. Earlier, he held the post of the National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He headed the Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP's Information Communication Campaign Committee where he oversaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangiya Junction Railway Station
Rangiya Junction Railway Station is a junction station on the New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section of Barauni–Guwahati line, and Rangia–Tezpur line of Rangiya–Murkongselek section. It is located in Kamrup district in the Indian state of Assam. It serves Rangiya and the surrounding areas. . Rangiya Junction is the 4th largest railway station in Northeast India. History In 1883–84 the -wide metre-gauge line of Assam Behar State Railway met the Eastern Bengal Railway's broad gauge line at . It reached in 1888–89 and in 1909 it reached Amingaon on the banks of the Brahmaputra, which could be crossed by ferry to reach Guwahati. The new broad-gauge track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984. Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried metre-gauge tracks, which was later replaced by broad-gauge tracks. The -long Rangia–Murkongselek line is being converted from -wide metre gauge to broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badarpur Junction Railway Station
Badarpur Railway Station serves the Indian city of Badarpur in Assam. It belongs to Lumding railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway of India. It is located at Cachar district in the state of Assam. It is one of the oldest station of India built in 1898. The Station connects Badarpur to other regions of Barak Valley as well as many parts of India. Badarpur railway station is also the largest and most important railway station in Barak valley and south Assam region. History Assam Bengal Railway was incorporated in 1892 to serve British-owned tea plantations in Assam. The railway line from Chittagong to Badarpur was opened to traffic in 1898. 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 Assam Bengal Railway . On 1 January 1942 the Assam Bengal Railway combined with the Eastern Bengal Railway to form the Bengal and Assam Railway. At time of the ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICF Coach
The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) coach is a conventional Passenger railroad car, passenger coach used on the majority of Indian Railways (IR) lines. Between 1955 and 2018, more than 54,000 were produced and some were exported to other countries. History The design of the coach was developed by Integral Coach Factory, Perambur, Chennai, India in collaboration with the Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich, Swiss Car & Elevator Manufacturing Co, Schlieren, Switzerland. The bogies were also known as ''Schlieren bogies'' after the location of the Swiss company. An Indian delegation made initial contacts with the Swiss manufacturer at a railway congress in Lucerne in the summer of 1947, the contract for cooperation between the company and the Government of India was signed in Delhi in May 1949, and work on the Perambur factory began a year later. The plant was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955. By 2018, it had manufactured more than 54,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guwahati
Guwahati () the largest city of the Indian state of Assam, and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam. The Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport is the 12th List of the busiest airports in India, busiest in India, and the busiest in the North-East of the country. A major riverine port city along with hills, and one of the fastest growing cities in India, Guwahati is situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra. The city is known as the "gateway to North East India". The ancient cities of Pragjyotishpura and Durjaya (North Guwahati) were the capitals of the ancient state of Kamarupa. Many ancient Hindu temples like the Kamakhya Temple, Ugratara Devalaya, Ugratara Temple, Basistha Temple, Doul Govinda Temple, Umananda Temple, Navagraha temples#Navagraha temple in Assam, Navagraha Temple, Sukreswar Temple, Rudreswar Temple, Manikarne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, northeastern India by area and the largest in terms of population, with more than 31 million inhabitants. The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India. Assamese language, Assamese and Bodo language, Bodo are two of the official languages for the entire state and Meitei language, Meitei (Manipuri language, Manipuri) is recognised as an additional official language in three districts of Barak Valley and Hojai district. in Hojai district and for the Barak valley region, alongside Bengali language, Bengali, which is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
