Fakiragram is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

on the

New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section The New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of the Barauni–Guwahati line connects New Jalpaiguri in the Indian state of West Bengal and New Bongaigaon in Assam. History During British rule, all links from the northern part of Bengal and As ...

Barauni–Guwahati line The Barauni–Guwahati railway line connects Barauni, Saharsa, Purnia and Katihar in the Indian state of Bihar and Bongaigaon, Kamakhya and in Assam via Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar in West Bengal. It is a linkage of prime ...

and is located in

Kokrajhar district Kokrajhar district is an administrative districts of Assam, district in Bodoland, Bodoland Territorial Region of Assam. It is predominantly inhabited by the Bodo people, Boro tribe. The district has its headquarters located at Kokrajhar Town a ...

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 ...

. A branch line from Fakiragram connects to

Dhubri Dhubri is a city and the administrative centre of Dhubri district in the Indian state of Assam. It is an old town on the bank of the Brahmaputra River, with historical significance. In 1883, the town was first constituted as a municipal board un ...

Trains

Major Trains: * Guwahati - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Kaziranga Superfast Express * Tambaram-Silghat Town Nagaon Express * Sealdah–Sabroom 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 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 ...

Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express The 15769 / 70 Alipurduar Junction - Lumding Junction Intercity Express is an Superfast Express trains in India, Express train belonging to Indian Railways Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between and in India. It operates as train n ...

Alipurduar–Kamakhya Intercity Express Alipurduar - Kamakhya Intercity Express is an intercity train of the Indian Railways connecting Alipurduar in West Bengal and Kamakhya in Assam. It is currently being operated with 15771/15772 train numbers on a daily basis. Service The 15771 ...

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 ––––

Teesta Teesta River is a long river that rises in the Pauhunri Mountain of eastern Himalayas, flows through the Indian states of Sikkim and West Bengal and subsequently enters Bangladesh through Rangpur division. In Bangladesh, it merges with Jamuna ...

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

Fakiragram 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: ...

and . Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950. Construction of the -long

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 ...

in the –

Jogighopa Jogighopa is a small town located on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River in the Bongaigaon district in the state of Assam, India. Within the city, there are the remains of the five rock cut caves which are assumed to be examples of Ml ...

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.

References

{{Railway stations in Assam Railway stations in India opened in the 1900s Railway junction stations in Assam Railway stations in Kokrajhar district Alipurduar railway division