Elevation 36 m (118 ft) Line(s) Jiribam-Imphal section Opened 1903 Platforms in use 1 | Owned by Indian Railways Tracks 3 Owner Indian Railways | |
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Location Jiribam, Imphal East district, Manipur
India Operated by Northeast Frontier Railway Similar Arunachal Junction railway st, Silchar railway station, Bairabi railway station, Agartala railway station | ||
Jiribam railway station belongs to Lumding railway division of North East Frontier Railway. It is the first railway station in the state of Manipur
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History
The Jiribam rail ink was a part of rail link to assam for Tea transportation in the early 20th century. It was constructed by Assam Bengal railway. With the partition of India in 1947, portions of the Bengal Assam Railway which lay in Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal became Assam Railway. North Eastern Railway was formed in 1952 by amalgamating Assam Railway with Oudh Tirhut Railway and Fatehgarh district of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. Northeast Fronter Railway was carved out of North Eastern Railway in 1958.
The portion of the system which fell within the boundary of erstwhile East Pakistan was named as Eastern Bengal Railway. On 1 February 1961, Eastern Bengal Railway was renamed as Pakistan Railway and in 1962 it became Pakistan Eastern Railway . With the emergence of Bangladesh, it became Bangladesh Railway.
After the independence of Pakistan on 15 August 1947 the broad-gauge portion of the Bengal-Assam Railway, lying in India was added to the East Indian Railway and the metre-gauge portion became the Assam Railway, with its headquarters at Pandu. On 14 April 1952, the 2857 km long Assam Railway and the Oudh and Tirhut Railway were amalgamated to form one of the six newly carved zones of the Indian Railways: the North Eastern Railway (India). On the same day, the reorganized Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway (which was added to the East Indian Railway earlier) was amalgamated with the Eastern Railway.
Rail link to Imphal
Initial work on gauge conversion from Silchar to Jiribam started in December 2009 and finished in early 2016 and goods services resumed. First Locomotive test run held on 15 May 2012 on Jiribam - Imphal line.
Freight train started to run on Silchar - Jiribam segment from 21 March 2016. Passenger service started on 27 May 2016 and one pair of Passenger train (55665/55666) is running on this section between Silchar and Jiribam.
Now broad gauze line is complete up to Dholakhal railway station and freight train are running up to Dholakhal station on Jiribam - Tupul section of Jiribam - Imphal section. There is also a plan to connect this line to Moreh to link Myanmar with Rail.