The 15641 / 15642 Barak Brahmaputra Express is a weekly

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train, which runs between the

Silchar Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India. It is second largest city of Assam after Guwahati in terms of population and GDP. It is also administrative capital of Barak Valley division. It is locate ...

and New Tinsukia stations in

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 ...

, India. It comes under the

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. This train is named after Indian rivers

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and

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, both of which are two main rivers of Assam and also they are important for connectivity in Barak & Brahmaputra Valley.

Overview

This train was inaugurated on 8 April 2018. It was flagged off by

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( former Chief Minister of Assam) and Rajen Gohain (former Minister of state of Railways), from Dibrugarh with an weekly frequency train service and it was run as Silchar–Dibrugarh Express. After 2 months in June 2018 this train name was given as Barak Brahmaputra Express.indianexpress.com
Retrieved 27 May 2019.

Routes

This train passes through every Major station including , New Haflong, , & on both sides. Sometime for passes train has to stop at some small halt too, which sometime increase the journey time.

Traction

As the route is partially electrified, a Siliguri Loco Shed based WDP-4 / WDP-4B / WDP-4D diesel locomotives pulls the train in both directions.

Rake sharing

The train shares its rake with 12507 Aronai Express and 12515/16 Coimbatore–Silchar Express.

References

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