New Bongaigaon Junction railway station

26°28′33″N 90°33′47″E / 26.4757°N 90.5630°E / 26.4757; 90.5630Elevation58 metres (190 ft)Owned byIndian RailwaysOperated byNortheast Frontier RailwayLine(s)

• Barauni-Guwahati line
• New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section
• New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section
• New Bongaigaon–Jogihopa–Kamakhya line

Platforms7 (1,1A,1B,2,3,4,5)Tracks12ConnectionsAuto-rickshaw StandConstructionStructure typeOver Tunia RiverParking AvailableBicycle facilities AvailableAccessible YesOther informationStatusFunctioningStation codeNBQ Zone(s) Northeast Frontier Railway Division(s) RangiyaHistoryOpened1965Electrified YesPrevious namesAssam Bengal RailwayPassengers50K/Day ( high) Services

Location

New Bongaigaon Junction is a railway junction station of Barauni–Guwahati line, and New Bongaigaon–Jogihopa–Kamakhya line of Northeast Frontier Railway. The one and only railway station in India which is located over a river named Tunia. It is the largest railway station with Carriage & Wagon Workshop in Rangiya railway division.

History

Construction of the 265 km (165 mi)-long 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge Siliguri–Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad-gauge railways to Assam. It also was the reason for setting up the New Bongaigaon railway station.^[1]

New railway track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984.^[2]

Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried a metre-gauge track, which was later replaced by broad gauge.^[3]

Electrification

Electrification of the Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati line was sanctioned in 2008.^[4] 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.^[5] The entire electrification project is scheduled to be completed by 2022.^[6]

Track doubling

Doubling of the track between New Bongaigaon and Kamakhya via Rangia has been approved in the Railway Budget for 2013–14.^[7] A double-line track is there between Samuktala Road and New Bongaigaon.^[6]

Amenities

New Bongaigaon has two double-bedded retiring rooms, computerized railway reservation system, waiting room and vegetarian and non vegetarian food stalls.^[8]

Workshop

The Carriage and Wagon Workshop is located about 2 km west of New Bongaigaon railway station. It was set up in sixties and has maintenance, as well as manufacturing facilities.^[9]

Gallery

• 
  Front of the station from another side
• 
  New Bongaigaon Junction station night view with decorated light
• 
  Platform No. 3/2 of New Bongaigaon Junction Station

Major trains

1. New Jalpaiguri - Guwahati Vande Bharat Express
2. Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)^[10]
3. Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express (Via Moranhat)^[11]
4. Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express (Via Rangapara North)^[12]
5. Agartala - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Humsafar Express^[13]
6. Naharlagun - Anand Vihar Terminal AC Superfast Express
7. Kamakhya - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus AC Superfast Express
8. Kamakhya - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal AC Superfast Express
9. Guwahati - New Delhi Poorvattar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express
10. Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express
11. Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express^[14]
12. Silchar - Coimbatore Superfast Express^[15]
13. Silchar - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express^[16]
14. Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express
15. New Tinsukia–Chennai Tambaram Express^[17]
16. New Tinsukia–Amritsar Express
17. Dibrugarh–Chandigarh Express
18. Dibrugarh - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express^[18]
19. Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express^[19]
20. Dibrugarh–Kolkata Superfast Express
21. Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati^[20]
22. Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North^[21]
23. Silghat Town - Tambaram Nagaon Express^[22]
24. Silghat Town - Kolkata Kaziranga Express
25. Agartala - Firozpur Tripura Sundari Express
26. Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express
27. Agartala - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express^[23]
28. New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express
29. Dibrugarh–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
30. Guwahati - Jammu Tawi Lohit Express^[24]
31. Guwahati- Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Kaziranga Superfast Express^[25]
32. Guwahati - Bikaner Express^[26][27]
33. Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
34. Guwahati - Barmer Express
35. Guwahati–Secunderabad Express
36. Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express^[28]
37. Guwahati - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express^[29]
38. Guwahati-Howrah Saraighat Superfast Express
39. Guwahati - Kolkata Garib Rath Express
40. Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express^[30]
41. Kamakhya–Gandhidham Superfast Express
42. Kamakhya - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Karmabhoomi Express.^[31]
43. Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express^[32]
44. Kamakhya - Jodhpur, Bhagat Ki Kothi Express
45. Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail^[33]
46. Kamakhya - Dr. Ambedkar Nagar Express^[34]
47. Kamakhya - Ranchi Express^[35]
48. Kamakhya - Puri Express via Howrah^[36]
49. Kamakhya - Puri Express (via Adra)
50. Kamakhya–Gaya Express
51. Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Express^[37]
52. Kamakhya - Delhi Northeast Express
53. Kamakhya - Gomti Nagar Express
54. Kamakhya - Rajendra Nagar Terminal Capital Express^[38]
55. Kamakhya - Alipurduar Intercity Express
56. New Jalpaiguri - Bongaigaon Express
57. Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express
58. Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express

References

External links

• New Bongaigaon Junction railway station at the India Rail Info

External videos
New Bongaigaon railway station

Preceding station	Indian Railways			Following station
Dangtal towards ?		Northeast Frontier Railway zone New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section and New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section		Bongaigaon towards ?
Terminus		Northeast Frontier Railway zone Bongaigaon–Jogihopa–Amakhya line		Majgaon towards ?