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.HistoryFakiragram 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 Katihar-Radhikapur- Biral-Parbatipur-Tista-Gitaldaha-Golokganj–Fakiragram.With the partition of India in 1947, the railway link to Assam through East Bengal was broken and Assam got delinked from the rest of India. Indian Railways took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a rail link between Fakiragram and Kishanganj. Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950.Construction of the 265km long wide broad gauge Siliguri-Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad gauge railways to Assam.