Fakiragram is a railway station on the New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line and is located in Kokrajhar district in the Indian state of Assam. A branch line from Fakiragram connects to Dhubri.
Trains Major Trains: Guwahati - Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal Kaziranga Superfast Express Tambaram-Silghat Town Nagaon Express Sealdah–Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjunga Express Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Guwahati Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail New Jalpaiguri - Bongaigaon Express Alipurduar–Silghat Town Rajya Rani Express Alipurduar–Lumding Intercity Express Alipurduar–Kamakhya Intercity Express
History Fakiragram railway station came up with the construction of the Golokganj–Amingaon railway line by Assam-Behar State Railway in the 1900–1910 period. During the period Assam was connected to the rest of India entirely through eastern Bengal.
In pre-independence days, there was a metre-gauge line ––––Teesta–––Fakiragram.
With the partition of India in 1947, the railway link to Assam through East Bengal was broken and Assam got delinked from the railway network in the rest of India. Indian Railways took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a rail link between Fakiragram and . Fakiragram was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950.
Construction of the -long broad gauge in the –Jogighopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad-gauge railways to Assam.
Fakiragram–Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge.
Electrification Electrification of the Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati line was sanctioned in 2008. In the document on Vision 2020 – A Blue Print for Railway Electrification Programme, in the list of ongoing projects the entire route km (836) is shown as balance work as on 1 April 2010. The entire electrification project is scheduled to be completed by October, 2015.
Amenities Fakiragram railway station has one double-bedded retiring room.
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