Gitaldaha railway station
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Gitaldaha
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| Indian Railway Station | |
| Location |
Cooch Behar, West Bengal India |
| Other information | |
| Status | Line out of service |
| History | |
| Opened | 1900? |
| Closed | 1955-1960? |
| Previous names | Cooch Behar State Railway |
| Track gauge | Meter gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) |
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Gitaldaha (Bengali: গীতলদহ ) (also spelled Geetaldaha) was a railway station and is a defunct rail transit point on the India-Bangladesh border in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The corresponding point on the Bangladesh side is Mogalhat in Lalmonirhat District.
Gitaldaha I and II are gram panchayats in Dinhata I (community development block).
By the turn of the nineteenth century Lalmonirhat railway station had emerged as an important railway centre. Bengal Dooars Railway constructed a line to Malbazar. Cooch Behar State Railway constructed the Gitaldaha-Jayanti narrow gauge line. Links were established with Assam, with the Golokganj-Amingaon line coming up. In pre-independence days, a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) wide metre gauge line running via Radhikapur, Biral, Parbatipur, Tista, Gitaldaha and Golokganj connected Fakiragram in Assam with Katihar in Bihar.
The Geetaldaha-Mogalhat link was there in 1955, when India and Pakistan signed an agreement regarding resumption of rail traffic. Subsequently, a part of the bridge across the Dharla River at 26°00′11″N 89°28′10″E / 26.00304°N 89.46934°E was washed away transforming Geetaldaha-Mogalhat into a defunct railway transit point.
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