Samuktala Road Junction railway station
Railway Station in West Bengal, India
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Samuktala Road Junction is a railway junction station in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
India
Samuktala Road Junction | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | National Highway 31C, Distt: Alipurduar, West Bengal, PIN-736208 India | ||||
| Coordinates | 26.4838°N 89.6355°E | ||||
| Elevation | 48 metres (157 ft) | ||||
| System | Indian Railways junction station | ||||
| Owner | Indian Railways | ||||
| Operator | North East Frontier Railway | ||||
| Lines | New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Construction | |||||
Structure type | At grade | ||||
| Parking | Not required | ||||
Cycle facilities | Not available | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | SMTA | ||||
| Division(s) | Alipurduar | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1950 | ||||
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History
With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, previously passing through eastern Bengal, were cut off from the rest of India. The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 and the first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The project was a 142-mile-long (229 km) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge line linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj.[1] The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.[2]
The broad-gauge line from New Jalpaiguri to Samuktala Road was added in the 1960s.[3]
