Jalpaiguri Road Railway Station

Jalpaiguri Road railway station is one of the four railway station serving Jalpaiguri city in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The others are: Jalpaiguri City, Mohitnagar/Jalpaiguri Halt, and Raninagar Jalpaiguri Junction railway station. Jalpaiguri is a newly built station, connecting the Barauni–Guwahati line and the New Mal–New Changrabandha–New Cooch Behar line. Jalpaiguri Road Railway Station (JPE) was established in 1964. Operated by Northeast Frontier Railway. Jalpaiguri Road Railway Station (JPE) is located almost in the middle of the district. The nearest road to Jalpaiguri Road station is "Jalpaiguri - Siliguri State highway" and Four-lane East-West Corridor (National Highway) at a distance of 1 km. This station is part of the re-development project under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.

Major trains

* Uttar Banga Express
* Kamrup Express
* Padatik Express
* Kaziranga Superfast Express
* North East Express
* Avadh Assam Express
* Brahmaputra Mail
* Sealdah-Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express
* Teesta Torsha Express
* New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Weekly Express
* Sealdah-Silchar Kanchanjunga Express
* Vivek Express
* Guwahati-Bengaluru Cantt. Superfast Express
* Dibrugarh-Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
* Dibrugarh - Deogarh Express
* New Jalpaiguri–Bongaigaon Express
* Originating/Terminating Trains :
* Sealdah - Jalpaiguri Road Humsafar Express

History

During the British period all connections from southern parts of Bengal to North Bengal were through the eastern part of Bengal. From 1878, the railway route from Kolkata, then called Calcutta, was in two laps. The first lap was a 185 km journey along the Eastern Bengal State Railway from Calcutta Station (later renamed Sealdah) to Damookdeah Ghat on the southern bank of the Padma River, then across the river in a ferry and the second lap of the journey. A 336 km metre-gauge line of the North Bengal Railway linked Saraghat on the northern bank of the Padma to Siliguri via Jalpaiguri.

The 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta–Siliguri route became broad-gauge. The route thus ran: Sealdah–Ranaghat– Bheramara–Hardinge Bridge– Iswardi– Santahar–– Parabtipur–Nilphamari–––Siliguri.

With the partition of India, this track got trisected. The through route was formally closed after the India–Pakistan War in 1965.

The Siliguri–Haldibari, part of the original broad-gauge Calcutta–Siliguri track via Hardinge Bridge, got delinked from the trunk route in 1947. As all the other tracks in the area were metre gauge, it was converted from broad gauge to metre gauge in the late forties. When New Jalpaiguri railway station came up, the line was extended to New Jalpiguri. When broad-gauge lines were laid in the area, it was reconverted to broad gauge and now functions as the Haldibari–New Jalpaiguri line.

See also

* North Eastern Railway Connectivity Project
* Jalpaiguri Railway Station

References

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Departures from Jalpaiguri Road railway station
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{{Railway stations in West Bengal

Railway stations in India opened in 1915
Katihar railway division
Railway stations in Jalpaiguri district
Transport in Jalpaiguri