Lumding railway station

Lumding is a junction railway station on the Guwahati-Lumding section. It is located in Hojai district in the Indian state of Assam. It serves Lumding and the surrounding areas.HistoryIn the pre-partition days, Assam was linked to Chittagong through the Akhaura-Kulaura-Chhatak Line and Akhaura-Laksam-Chittagong Line. The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port. Assam Bengal Railway started construction of a railway track on the eastern side of Bengal in 1891. A 150km track between Chittagong and Comilla was opened to traffic in 1895. The Comilla-Akhaura-Kalaura-Badarpur section was opened in 1896–1898 and extended to Lumding in 1903.Assam Bengal Railway opened the Lumding-Guwahati line in 1900.After independence and partition, the entire Guwahati-Lumding-Dibrugarh-Tinsukia sector was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge by 1997.The Lumding-Silchar gauge conversion work was scheduled to be completed in March–April 2015.AmenitiesLumding railway station has two double-bedded AC retiring rooms, seven double-bedded non-AC retiring rooms and a three-bedded dormitory.