New Haflong Railway Station
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New Haflong railway station is a main railway station in
Dima Hasao district Dima Hasao district (), is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam. Dima Hasao district is one of two autonomous hill districts of Assam. The district headquarters Haflong ...
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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 ...
. Its code is NHLG. It serves
Haflong Haflong is a town and headquarters of Dima Hasao district (formerly North Cachar Hills) in the state of Assam in India. It is the only hill station in Assam. Etymology Haflong is a Dimasa word meaning '' ant hill''. Geography Haflong has a ...
town.


Station

The station consists of three platforms. New Haflong lies on
Lumding–Sabroom section The Lumding–Sabroom section is a railway line under Lumding railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single broad-gauge track from Lumding in Nagaon District of Assam state to Agartala in West Tripur ...
provides the rail connectivity in Haflong with
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. Th ...
and
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 ...
.


Incidents

In 2022, following heavy rainfall in and around the town and
Dima Hasao district Dima Hasao district (), is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam. Dima Hasao district is one of two autonomous hill districts of Assam. The district headquarters Haflong ...
, the train station was submerged and a train parked at the station was derailed.


Major trains

Some of the important trains that runs from New Haflong are : # New Delhi - Agartala Tejas Rajdhani Express # Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal - Agartala Humsafar Express # Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Agartala AC Express # Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express # Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express # Silchar - Coimbatore Superfast Express #
Silchar–Secunderabad Express The Silchar–Secunderabad Express is a Superfast Express train operated by Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways that runs between , Assam and Secunderabad, Telangana via Guwahati. The train is currently being operated with 12513/1 ...
# Silchar - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express # Agartala - Firozpur Cantonment Tripura Sundari Express # Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express # Agartala - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express # Silchar - New Tinsukia Barak Brahmaputra Express #
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 ...
# Guwahati–Dullabcherra Express


References

Railway stations in Dima Hasao district Lumding railway division {{Assam-railstation-stub