Lumding Junction railway station

Lumding Junction Railway Station serves the Indian city of Lumding in Assam. It is the divisional headquarter of Lumding railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is located in Hojai district. It is the 2nd biggest railway station of Lumding railway division, after Guwahati. It is one of the oldest railway stations in India built under Assam Bengal Railway. It consists of 5 platforms with a total of 68 halting trains and 3 originating trains. The station consists of double diesel line.^[1]

Lumding Jn.
Commuter rail & Regional rail
Lumding Junction Railway Station
General information
Location	Station Road, Lumding, Hojai-782447, Assam  India
Coordinates	25°45′01″N 93°10′37″E
Elevation	142 metres (466 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	Northeast Frontier Railway
Line(s)	Guwahati–Lumding section Lumding–Dibrugarh section Lumding–Badarpur section
Platforms	5
Tracks	14
Connections	Auto-rickshaw
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Parking	Available
Bicycle facilities	Available
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Functioning
Station code	LMG
Zone(s)	Northeast Frontier
Division(s)	Lumding
History
Opened	1903
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Assam Bengal Railway
Passengers
50K/Day ( high)
Services
Location Lumding Junction railway station Location in Assam

History

In the pre-partition days, Assam was linked to Chittagong through the Akhaura–Kulaura–Chhatak line and Akhaura–Laksam–Chittagong line. The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port. Assam Bengal Railway started construction of a railway track on the eastern side of Bengal in 1891. A 150-kilometre long (93 mi) track between Chittagong and Comilla was opened to traffic in 1895. The Comilla–Akhaura–Kulaura–Badarpur section was opened in 1896–1898 and extended to Lumding in 1903.^[2][3]

Assam Bengal Railway opened the Lumding–Guwahati line in 1900.^[4]

After independence and partition, the entire Guwahati–Lumding–Dibrugarh–Tinsukia sector was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge by 1997.^[5][6]

The Lumding–Silchar gauge conversion work was scheduled to be completed in March–April 2015.^[7]

Amenities

Following services available in Lumding Jn. Railway Station:

• 02 (02 Bedded) AC Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker/Charging point
• 07 (02 Bedded) Non AC Retiring Rooms with Free Wi-Fi/TV/Locker
• 01 (08 Bedded) Non AC Dormitory with Free Wi-Fi/TV
• Executive Lounge
• High Speed Google Railwire Free Wi-Fi service
• Upper Class/Lower Class Waiting Rooms having Free Wi-Fi/AC/TV/Charging points/Drinking water & separate Ladies/Gents Washrooms
• Food Plaza
• Tea Stall
• FOB with 2X Escalator/Elevators 3X
• CCTV Surveillance

Loco shed

There was a metre gauge loco shed at Lumding. When the entire Guwahati–Lumding–Dibrugarh line was converted to broad gauge, the Lumding–Badarpur–Silchar line has also been converted to broad gauge. The YDM-4 metre gauge locos from New Guwahati loco shed were transferred to Lumding. Recently, the metre-gauge shed is transformed to EMU shed.^[8]

Lumding railway division

Lumding railway division was created on 1 May 1969.^[9]

Major trains

1. New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)^[10]
2. New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via Moranhat)^[11]
3. Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Agartala AC Express
4. Guwahati−Dibrugarh Shatabdi Express
5. Silchar–New Delhi Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Express
6. Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express
7. Silchar - Thiruvananthapuram Aronai Superfast Express^[12]
8. Silchar - Coimbatore Superfast Express^[13]
9. Sabroom - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express^[14]
10. Agartala - Firozpur Tripura Sundari Express
11. New Tinsukia–Amritsar Express
12. Dibrugarh–Chandigarh Express
13. New Tinsukia–SMVT Bengaluru Superfast Express
14. Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express^[15]
15. Dibrugarh - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express^[16]
16. Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati^[17]
17. Silchar - Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express^[18]
18. Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express
19. Dibrugarh–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
20. Guwahati–Jorhat Town Jan Shatabdi Express
21. Guwahati - Dibrugarh Town Nagaland Express
22. Rangiya–Silchar Express
23. Guwahati - Mariani BG Express
24. Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express
25. Silchar - New Tinsukia Barak Brahmaputra Express
26. Guwahati–Ledo Intercity Express
27. Rangiya–New Tinsukia Express
28. New Tinsukia - Darbhanga Jivacch Link Express

See also

• North Eastern Railway Connectivity Project
• North Western Railway zone