Arunachal Junction railway station

Arunachal Junction railway station
Indian Railways Station
Location National Highway 53, Masimpu, Silchar, Assam
 India
Coordinates 24°51′21″N 92°44′34″E / 24.8557°N 92.7428°E / 24.8557; 92.7428Coordinates: 24°51′21″N 92°44′34″E / 24.8557°N 92.7428°E / 24.8557; 92.7428
Elevation 26 metres (85 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Operated by Northeast Frontier Railway
Line(s) Lumding-Badarpur section
Platforms 1
Tracks 3
Connections Auto rickshaw, bus, taxi
Construction
Structure type Standard (on ground station)
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code ARCL
Zone(s) Northeast Frontier Railway Zone
Division(s) Lumding railway division
History
Previous names Assam Bengal Railway

Arunachal Junction railway station is a small railway station in Cachar district, Assam. Its code is ARCL. It serves Silchar city. The station consists of 2 platforms. The platform is not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities including water and sanitation.[1] The Indian Gauge conversion which includes the reconstruction of the railway station started in October 2014 as part of the Lumding - Badarpur - Silchar railway section of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of the Indian Railways.[2][3][4]

Major trains

References

  1. ↑ "ARCL/Arunachal Junction". India Rail Info.
  2. ↑ Kashyap, Samudra Gupta (November 21, 2015). "New Lumding-Silchar BG track opened for passenger traffic". The Indian Express.
  3. ↑ "Suresh Prabhu Inaugurates Landmark Lumding-Silchar". Press Information Bureau, Government of India, Ministry of Railways. March 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ Singh, Bikash (March 28, 2015). "First goods train in newly Gauge Converted Lumding – Silchar section flagged off". The Economic Times.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.