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 NFR. It is located in Nagaon district. It is the 2nd biggest railway station of Lumding railway division, after Guwahati. It is one of the oldest railway station in India built under Assam Bengal Railway. It consists of 5 platforms with a total of 68 halting trains & 3 originating trains. The station consists of "Double Diesel Line".

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 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.
Assam Bengal Railway opened the Lumding-Guwahati line in 1900.
After independence and partition, the entire Guwahati-Lumding-Dibrugarh-Tinsukia sector was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge by 1997.
The Lumding-Silchar gauge conversion work was scheduled to be completed in March–April 2015.

Amenities

Lumding railway station has two double-bedded AC retiring rooms, seven double-bedded non-AC retiring rooms and a three-bedded dormitory. Two elevators are currently functioning for old aged and physically handicapped people.

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 meter gauge shed is transformed to EMU shed

Lumding railway division

Lumding railway division was created on 1 May 1969.

Major Trains