Status Partially Operational Opened 1997 Number of tracks 1 Terminis Sabroom, Silchar | Locale Assam, Tripura Line length 312 km (194 mi) Owner Indian Railways | |
Operator(s) Northeast Frontier Railway | ||
The Silchar–Sabroom section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting Silchar in Assam and Sabroom in Tripura, India. Among the overall 382-kilometre (237 mi) long railway only 312-kilometre (194 mi) are currently operational. The tracks in the operational section is converted to 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Broad gauge from meter gauge till Agartala & new track laid from Agarta to Udaipur & completed in 2016. Track laying on the remaining part of the section in underway. The entire section is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway.
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History
Railway service was established in Tripura in 1964, but it was limited to Dharmanagar and Kailasahar. The northeastern state capital came on India's railmap with the advent of the railways in the subcontinent in 1853. The foundation stone of the 119 km Kumarghat-Agartala railway project was laid in 1996 by the former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda and during the laying of rail lines, provisions were kept for swiftly converting it to broad gauge.
Broad gauge
The railway tracks from Silchar to Kumarghat is being upgraded from metre gauge to broad gauge. Section from Kumarghat to Agartala was expected to be completed within three months on initiating the process as provisions are made for conversion while laying the track.
Proposed projects
The track is expected to be extended from Agartala to Akhaura in Bangladesh, as agreed by the prime ministers of the both countries. The Agartala-Sabroom section is also expected to be extended to Chittagong port which is 75 km from the India-Bangladesh border. In this section the track laying process is nearly completed up to Udaipur, with the exception of a few kilometers due to a land dispute.