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Naugachia railway station

Naugachia railway station

Station on the Asansol–Gaya section of the Grand Chord in Jharkhand, India

Naugachia railway station (station code: NNA) is on the Barauni–Katihar section of the Sonpur railway division and serves the town of Naugachhia in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Geography

The station lies on the northern side of the Ganges and traverses the Kosi basin. In Bihar, the Kosi is widely referred to as the "Sorrow of Bihar" as it has caused widespread human suffering over the centuries through flooding and frequent changes in course. Over the last 250 years, the Kosi has shifted its course over 120 kilometres (75 mi) from east to west. In August 2008, it picked up an old channel it had abandoned over a century ago near the Nepal–India border, and caused enormous damage in a wide area covering several districts. The breach in the Kosi embankment which caused the devastating flood in 2008, was repaired in 2009 and the river has since been flowing along its original course.[1] The floods continue and threaten even the Barauni–Katihar tracks. The entire region portrays "a bleak picture of broken houses, flattened fields and ravaged lives, signs of all the havoc the previous floods and land erosion wreaked here earlier."[2]

Trains

Major trains

  1. New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)[3]
  2. Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Kamakhya AC Superfast Express
  3. Katihar - Delhi Junction, Champaran Humsafar Express
  4. Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Express[4]
  5. Kamakhya - Delhi Northeast Express
  6. Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express
  7. Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express[5]
  8. Guwahati - Jammu Tawi Lohit Express[6]
  9. Dibrugarh–Chandigarh Express
  10. New Jalpaiguri -Rajendra Nagar Capital Express[7]
  11. Kamakhya-Patna Capital Express[8]
  12. Dibrugarh - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express[9]
  13. Kamakhya - Jodhpur, Bhagat Ki Kothi Express
  14. Alipurduar - Delhi Junction Mahananda Express[10]
  15. Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express[11]
  16. New Tinsukia–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
  17. Guwahati - Bikaner Express[12][13]
  18. Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
  19. Guwahati - Barmer Express
  20. Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express[14]
  21. Kamakhya - Dr. Ambedkar Nagar Express[15]
  22. Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express[16]
  23. New Jalpaiguri - Ranchi Weekly Express
  24. Anand Vihar Terminal - Jogbani Seemanchal Express
  25. Katihar Junction - Amritsar Amrapali Express
  26. Kishanganj - Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express
  27. Muzaffarpur - SMVT Bengaluru Weekly Express
  28. Saharsa - Sealdah Hate Bazare Express
  29. Katihar - Tatanagar Express

Electrification

Electrification of the 809 kilometres (503 mi) long Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati section was sanctioned in 2008.[17] As of 2011, work on electrification of Barabanki–Gorakhpur–Barauni–New Jalpaiguri route was in progress. Adequate funds have been provided in the budget for 2011–12 to take up work in the New Jalapiguri–New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section.[18] The section is fully electrified. Most of the Delhi and Amritsar-bound trains run on electric locomotives. Amrapali Express was the first train to run on electric locomotive, then after Rajdhani Express, North-east Express, Purvottar Sampark Kranti Express, Seemanchal Express, Tripura Sundari Express have electric engines.

References

  1. [1]
    "Kosi River (कोसी नदी) – The Sorrow of Bihar". Gits4U.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Hungry Kosi scares villages". The Telegraph. 21 June 2011. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  3. [3]
    "New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)". indiarailinfo.com.
  4. [4]
    "15621/Kamakhya - Anand Vihar Terminal Weekly Express (PT) - Kamakhya to Anand Vihar Terminal NFR/Northeast Frontier Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  6. [6]
    "Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Lohit Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  7. [7]
    "New Jalpaiguri Rajendra Nagar Capital Express". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  8. [8]
    "13248/Rajendra Nagar Terminal - Kamakhya Capital Express - Patna to Kamakhya ECR/East Central Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  9. [9]
    "Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Guwahati Express via Katihar". indiarailinfo.com.
  10. [10]
    "15484/Sikkim Mahananda Express - Old Delhi to Alipur Duar NFR/Northeast Frontier Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  11. [11]
    "Udaipur City Kamakhya Kavi Guru Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  12. [12]
    Mishra, Sudhanshu (25 March 2013). "Train without engine travels 20 km in Barmer". India Today. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  13. [13]
    Bihar: AC coach of Guwahati-Bikaner Express derails after hitting truck
  14. [14]
    "15609⇒15909/Avadh Assam Express (PT)". indiarailinfo.com.
  15. [15]
    "19305/Dr. Ambedkar Nagar - Kamakhya Weekly Express (PT) - Indore to Kamakhya WR/Western Zone - Railway Enquiry". indiarailinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  16. [16]
    "15655/Kamakhya - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express". indiarailinfo.com.
  17. [17]
    "Electrification of 809 route Kilometers of Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati section of East Central and Northeast Frontier Railways". Press Information Bureau. 7 February 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  18. [18]
    "Railway electrification project to touch North East soon". Business Standard. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
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