New Gitaldaha railway station
New Gitaldaha | |||||
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Indian Railways station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Cooch Behar, West Bengal India | ||||
Coordinates | 26°02′07″N 89°29′20″E / 26.03524°N 89.48884°E | ||||
Other information | |||||
Status | Line out of service | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1900 | ||||
Closed | 1955–1960? | ||||
Previous names | Cooch Behar State Railway | ||||
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New Gitaldaha railway station is on the broad-gauge Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line.[1]
Gitaldaha was a railway station and is a defunct rail transit point on the India–Bangladesh border in
Railway links
The area was agog with railway activity in the 19th–20th century. The Assam Behar State Railway linked
The Lalmonirhat–Mogalhat–Gitaldaha route was functional when India and Pakistan agreed in 1955 for resumption of railway traffic between the two countries, and it included movement of cross traffic via Mogalhat through the Eastern Bengal Railway.[6] A portion 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 by floods in 1988.[7][8]
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Defunct Lalmonirhat–Geetaldaha line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Burimari–Lalmonirhat– Parbatipur line |
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Source: Bangladesh Railway Route Map |
Prior to the
The conversion of the 72 km-long
New Gitaldaha railway station serves Gitaldaha and the surrounding areas.
The map alongside presents the position as it stands today (2020). The international border was not there when the railways were first laid in the area in the 19th-20th century. It came up in 1947. The map is 'interactive' (the larger version) - it means that all the places shown in the map are linked in the full screen map.
References
- ^ "55765 =>55465 Alipurduar – Bamunhat Passenger". Time Table. India Rail Info. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Introducing Burimari". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on 21 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ "Notification No. 63/94-Cus. (N.T.) dtd 21/11/1994 with amendments - Land Customs Stations and Routes for import and export of goods by land or inland water ways". Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ^ R. P. Saxena. "Indian Railway History timeline". Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Royal History". page 5. Cooch Behar district authorities. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Agreement on Resumption of Rail Traffic, 15 April 1955". Media Center, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "A Snap in the Link". Jebun Nesa Alo. The Business Standard, 22 February 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ Suvojit Bagchi (24 June 2017). "Villages without borders". The Hindu. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Trains of fame and locos with a name - Part 2". IRFCA. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ^ Srivastava, V.P. "Role of Engineering Deptt in Meeting Corporate Objectives of Indian Railways" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2020.