Alipurduar Junction railway station

Alipurduar Junction
Indian Railway Junction Station
Alipurduar Junction Railway Station
Location	BF Road, Alipurduar, West Bengal India
Coordinates	26°31′25″N 89°32′01″E / 26.5237°N 89.5335°E / 26.5237; 89.5335Coordinates: 26°31′25″N 89°32′01″E / 26.5237°N 89.5335°E / 26.5237; 89.5335
Elevation	53 metres (174 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railway
Operated by	Northeast Frontier Railway
Line(s)	New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar-Samuktala Road line, Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line
Platforms	3
Construction
Structure type	At ground
Parking	Available
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	APDJ
Zone(s)	North East Frontier Railway
Division(s)	Alipurduar railway division
History
Previous names	Cooch Behar State Railway
Services
Preceding station   Indian Railway   Following station Damanpur Northeast Frontier Railway zone New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar-Samuktala Road line Salsalabari Terminus Northeast Frontier Railway zone Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line Alipurduar Court
Location
Alipurduar Junction railway station Location in West Bengal

Alipurduar Junction is one of the four railway stations that serve Alipurduar city in Alipurduar district in north Bengal in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its station code is APDJ. An adjacent railway junction is New Alipurduar Junction (station code NOQ).

The Cooch Behar State Railway built a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway from Geetaldaha on the Eastern Bengal Railway to Jainti in 1901. The line passed through Alipuduar. It was converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge in 1910.

With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, earlier passing through the eastern part of Bengal, were completely cut off from the rest of India. The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 to construct a 229-kilometre long (142 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge railway line linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj in Bihar via Alipurduar. The first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The route was converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge in 2003-2006.