Owned by Indian Railways Parking No Elevation 31 m Platforms in use 1 | Structure type Standard on ground Address Golakganj, Assam 783334 Owner Indian Railways | |
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Location Golokganj, Distt: Dhubri, Assam
India Operated by Northeast Frontier Railway Line(s) Fakiragram-Dhubri branch line
New Cooch Behar-Golokganj branch line. Similar Dhubri railway station, Agomani railway station, Fakiragram Junction railway st, Samuktala Road Junction r, Alipurduar Junction railway st | ||
Golokganj is a railway junction station on the Fakiragram-Dhubri branch line and the New Cooch Behar-Golokganj branch line. A new line is being laid to connect Golokganj with Jogihopa. It is located in Dhubri district in the Indian state of Assam.
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Geography
Dhubri district occupies the south-west corner of Assam. It borders on Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Meghalaya. The Brahmaputra divides the district into two parts. Tributaries of the Brahmaputra such as Gangadhar, Gaurang, Tipkai, Champamoti in the north and Jinjiram, Jinari and Kaloo in the south are all major contributors of floods in the area.
History
In pre-independence days (in the early 1900s), there was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) wide metre gauge line: Katihar - Radhikapur - Biral - Parbatipur - Tista - Gitaldaha - Golakganj – Fakiragram.
With the partition of India in 1947, railways in Assam got delinked from that of the rest of India. Indian Railway took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a metre gauge rail link between Fakiragram and Kishanganj. Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950.
In the mid sixties, the first 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) wide broad gauge line was laid in the area from New Jalpaiguri to Jogihopa via New Bongaigaon.
The Fakiragram-Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge.
Up to the sixties there was a railway link from Cooch Behar to Dhubri via Golokganj. It was then known as the Assam Line Railway Service. It also connected East Pakistan, even after partition. However, collapse of the rail-cum-road bridge over the Gadadhar in the seventies ended that link. The bridge has been rebuilt and the track laid again as broad gauge, entirely through Indian territory. The line became operable in 2012. Dhubri-New Jalpaiguri Inter-city Express via New Cooch Behar was introduced in February 2012.