Barsoi Junction railway station

Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi town and Katihar city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a major and very important railway station having stoppages of premium trains like Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express and New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express.

Barsoi Junction
junction station
General information
Location	State Highway 65, Barsoi, Bihar India
Coordinates	25.6509°N 87.9226°E / 25.6509; 87.9226
Elevation	37 metres (121 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	North East Frontier Railway (NFR)
Line(s)	Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line Katihar–Siliguri line Barauni–Guwahati line Barsoi–Radhikapur branch line
Platforms	2
Tracks	6
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Parking	Available
Other information
Status	Active
Station code	BOE
Zone(s)	Northeast Frontier Railway
Division(s)	Katihar
History
Opened	1889
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Assam Behar State Railway
Services
Preceding station Indian Railways Following station Northeast Frontier Railway zone Katihar towards ? Barauni–Guwahati line Towards New Jalpaiguri Dalkhola towards ? Katihar–Siliguri line Towards Radhikapur Raiganj towards ? Malda Town towards ? Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line Towards Howrah Dalkhola towards ?
Location Barsoi Junction Location in Bihar Show map of India Barsoi Junction Barsoi Junction (Bihar) Show map of Bihar

History

Assam Behar State Railway extended the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre-gauge railway from Parbatipur, now in Bangladesh, to Katihar in 1889. The connection was truncated with the partition of India in 1947, and the line now runs up to Radhikapur, near the Bangladesh border.^[1]

In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi.^[2][3] The railway lines in the area started being converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge from the early 1960s.^[3]

Amenities

Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room^{[clarification needed]}.^[4]

Trains

Following major trains are available from Barsoi Junction railway station:

• Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express
• New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express
• Kamakhya–SMVT Bengaluru AC Superfast Express
• Kamakhya - Ranchi Express
• New Jalpaiguri - Chennai Superfast Express
• Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail
• New Tinsukia - Chennai Tambaram Express
• Silghat Town - Chennai Tambaram Nagaon Express
• Silchar–Secunderabad Express
• Dibrugarh - Mumbai LTT Express
• Sealdah - Alipurduar Kanchan Kanya Express
• Sealdah - Jalpaiguri Road Humsafar Express
• Kolkata–Radhikapur Express
• New Jalpaiguri - Digha Paharia Express
• Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Terminal North East Express
• Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express
• Howrah - Radhikapur Kulik Express
• Jogbani–Siliguri Town Intercity Express^[5]
• Siliguri Junction - Katihar Intercity Express
• Siliguri Junction - Balurghat Intercity Express
• Dibrugarh - Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express
• New Jalpaiguri-Rajendra Nagar Capital Express
• Kamakhya - Rajendra Nagar Capital Express
• New Jalpaiguri–Malda Town Express
• Sealdah–Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express
• Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjungha Express
• New Jalpaiguri–Amritsar Karmabhoomi Express
• Kamakhya - Puri Express
• Alipurduar - Delhi Sikkim Mahananda Express
• Guwahati - SMVT Bengaluru Kaziranga Superfast Express
• Sealdah - New Alipurduar Teesta Torsha Express
• Siliguri - Radhikapur Express
• Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
• Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express
• Dibrugarh - Deogarh Express
• Kishanganj–Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express