Alipurduar Junction railway station

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).HistoryThe Cooch Behar State Railway built a narrow gauge railway from Geetaldaha on the Eastern Bengal Railway to Jainti in 1901. The line passed through Alipuduar. It was converted to 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 229km 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 broad gauge in 2003-2006.