Barsoi Junction railway station


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–Patna Vande Bharat Express. and New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express.

History

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.
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. The railway lines in the area started being converted to broad gauge from the early 1960s.

Amenities

Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room.

Trains

Following major trains are available from Barsoi Junction railway station: