Jiribam railway station

Jiribam
Indian Railway Station
Location Jiribam, Imphal East district, Manipur
 India
Coordinates 24°28′51″N 93°03′57″E / 24.4809°N 93.0657°E
Elevation 36 m (118 ft)
Owned by Indian Railways
Operated by North East Frontier Railway
Line(s) Jiribam-Imphal section
Platforms 1
Tracks 3
Construction
Parking Available
Other information
Status Functioning
Station code JRBM
Zone(s) North East Frontier Railway
Division(s) Lumding Railway Division
History
Opened 1903
Electrified No
Location
jiribam railway station
Location in manipur

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

History

The Jiribam rail ink was a part of rail link to assam for Tea transportation in 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 Fatehgarh district of Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. Northeast Fronter Railway was carved out of North Eastern Railway in 1958.[1]

The portion of the system which fell within the boundary of erstwhile 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 on of Pakistan in 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 carved zones of the Indian Railways: the North Eastern Railway (India).[5][6] On the same day, the reorganized Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway (which was added to the East Indian Railway earlier) was amalgamated with the Eastern Railway.[7]

Rail link to Imphal

Initial work on gauge conversion from Silchar to Jiribam started in December 2009.First Locomotive test run held on May 15, 2012 on Jiribam Imphal line.[8] It was expected ro be completed by December 2016.[9] There is also a plan to connect this line to Moreh, to link Myanmar with Rail.

References

  1. ↑ "History". Northeast Frontier Railway. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  2. ↑ "History". Bangladesh Railways. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  3. ↑ "Railway". Banglapaedia. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
  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.
  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.
  8. ↑ "Test run on Jiribam-Imphal line". ANI news.
  9. ↑ "Jiribam-Imphal line expected to be completed end of 2016". Kangla online.