Jiribam railway station

Jiribam railway station serves Jiribam town and belongs to the Lumding railway division of North East Frontier Railway. It is the first railway station in the state of Manipur, India.

Jiribam
Indian Railway Station
LocationJiribam, Imphal East district, Manipur
India
Coordinates24°28′51″N 93°03′57″E
Elevation36 m (118 ft)
Owned byIndian Railways
Operated byNortheast Frontier Railway
Line(s)Katakhal-Jiribam-Imphal line
Platforms1
Tracks3
Other information
StatusFunctioning
Station codeJRBM
Zone(s) North East Frontier Railway
Division(s) Lumding Railway Division
History
Opened1903
ElectrifiedNo
Location
Jiribam railway station
Location in manipur

History

The Jiribam rail ink was a part of rail link to Assam for tea transportation in the early 20th century. It was constructed by Assam Bengal Railway. With the partition of India in 1947, portions of the Bengal Assam Railway which lay in Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal became Assam Railway. North Eastern Railway was formed in 1952 by amalgamating Assam Railway with Oudh Tirhut Railway and the Fatehgarh district of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. Northeast Fronter Railway was formed out of North Eastern Railway in 1958.[1]

The portion of the system which fell within the boundary of East Pakistan was named as Eastern Bengal Railway. On 1 February 1961, Eastern Bengal Railway was renamed as Pakistan Railway and in 1962 it became Pakistan Eastern Railway.[2] With the emergence of Bangladesh, it became Bangladesh Railway.[3]

After the independence of Pakistan on 15 August 1947 the broad-gauge portion of the Bengal-Assam Railway, lying in India was added to the East Indian Railway and the metre-gauge portion became the Assam Railway,[4] with its headquarters at Pandu. On 14 April 1952, the 2857 km long Assam Railway and the Oudh and Tirhut Railway were amalgamated to form one of the six newly formed zones of the Indian Railways: the North Eastern Railway (India).[5][6] On the same day, the reorganized Sealdah division of the Bengal Assam Railway (which was added to the East Indian Railway earlier) was amalgamated with the Eastern Railway.[7]

Current Status
  • Initial work on gauge conversion from Silchar to Jiribam started in December 2009 and finished in early 2016 and goods services resumed. The first locomotive test run was held on 15 May 2012 on the Jiribam - Imphal line.[8]
  • Freight trains started to run on the Silchar - Jiribam segment from 21 March 2016. Passenger services started on 27 May 2016 and one pair of Passenger train (55665/55666) is running on this section between Silchar and Jiribam.
  • Currently, the broad gauge line is complete up to Dholakhal railway station and freight trains are running up to Dholakhal station on the Jiribam - Tupul section of the Jiribam - Imphal section.[9] There is also a plan to connect this line to Moreh, India to link Myanmar with Rail.
  • Jiribam-Imphal line, 111 km long, to Imphal is likely to be completed by March 2022 as of status update in July 2020.[10]

Future development
  • As of February 2020, Chairman Railway Board inspected the progress of the under construction 110-km long Jiribam-Imphal railway line project. The crucial infrastructure project will provide railway connectivity to Imphal, the capital of Manipur. The rail line project is being developed at a cost of INR 12,524 crore and it is targeted for completion in March 2022. The rail line includes 62 km of tunnels and as many as 139 bridges.[11]
  • The line to Imphal will be extended to Moreh on the India-Myanmar border, from where it will then be extended to Myanmar to form part of the ambitious Trans-Asian Railway line.

See also

References
  1. "History". Northeast Frontier Railway. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  2. "History". Bangladesh Railways. Archived from the original on 15 November 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  3. Fida, Quazi Abul (2012). "Railway". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  4. Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, p.39
  5. "Chapter 1 - Evolution of Indian Railways-Historical Background". Ministry of Railways, India website. Archived from the original on 1 June 2009.
  6. Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.42-3
  7. "Sealdah division-Engineering details". The Eastern Railway, Sealdah division. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012.
  8. "Test run on Jiribam-Imphal line". ANI news. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015.
  9. http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/pm-flags-off-jiri-silchar-passenger-train/
  10. North East to get better Indian Railways connectivity! 5 major rail projects lined up, Financial Express, July 17 2020.
  11. https://www.financialexpress.com/infrastructure/railways/boost-for-north-east-indian-railways-jiribam-imphal-rail-line-project-set-for-completion-soon/1877289/
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