Barsoi Junction | |
Type: | junction station |
Style: | Indian Railways |
Address: | State Highway 65, Barsoi, Bihar |
Country: | India |
Elevation: | 37m (121feet) |
Line: | |
Structure: | Standard on ground |
Platform: | 2 |
Tracks: | 6 |
Parking: | Available |
Opened: | 1889 |
Electrified: | Yes |
Owned: | Indian Railways |
Operator: | North East Frontier Railway (NFR) |
Status: | Active |
Former: | Assam Behar State Railway |
Map Type: | India#India Bihar |
Map Dot Label: | Barsoi Junction |
Map Size: | 260 |
Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi town and katihar city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a major and very important railway station having stoppages of premium trains like Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express and New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express.
Assam Behar State Railway extended the -wide metre-gauge railway from Parbatipur, now in Bangladesh, to Katihar in 1889. The connection was truncated with the partition of India in 1947, and the line now runs up to Radhikapur, near the Bangladesh border.[1]
In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi.[2] [3] The railway lines in the area started being converted to broad gauge from the early 1960s.[3]
Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room.[4]
Following major trains are available from Barsoi Junction railway station: