Fakiragram Junction railway station
Fakiragram is a railway station on the New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line and is located in Kokrajhar district in the Indian state of Assam. A branch line from Fakiragram connects to Dhubri.
Trains
Major Trains:- Guwahati - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Kaziranga Superfast Express
- Tambaram-Silghat Town Nagaon Express
- Sealdah–Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express
- Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjunga Express
- Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Guwahati
- Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North
- Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail
- New Jalpaiguri - Bongaigaon Express
- Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express
- Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express
- Alipurduar–Kamakhya Intercity Express
History
Fakiragram railway station came up with the construction of the Golokganj–Amingaon railway line by Assam-Behar State Railway in the 1900–1910 period. During the period Assam was connected to the rest of India entirely through eastern Bengal.In pre-independence days, there was a metre-gauge line ––––Teesta–––Fakiragram.
With the partition of India in 1947, the railway link to Assam through East Bengal was broken and Assam got delinked from the railway network in the rest of India. Indian Railways took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a rail link between Fakiragram and. Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950.
Construction of the -long broad gauge in the –Jogighopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad-gauge railways to Assam.
Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge.