Golakganj is a railway junction station on the FakiragramâÂÂDhubri branch line and the New Cooch BeharâÂÂGolakganj branch line. It is located in Dhubri district in the Indian state of Assam. This station serves the Golakganj town. Important trains like KolkataâÂÂSairang Express, AlipurduarâÂÂSilghat Town Rajya Rani Express, SiliguriâÂÂDhubri Intercity Express, are available from this station.
Dhubri district occupies the south-west corner of Assam. It borders on Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Meghalaya. The Brahmaputra divides the district into two parts. Tributaries of the Brahmaputra such as Gangadhar, Gaurang, Tipkai, Champaboti in the north and Jinjiram, Jinari and Kaloo in the south are all major contributors of floods in the area. Golakganj is situated from , from , from & from
In pre-independence days (in the early 1900s), Golakganj was the main route falling -wide metre-gauge line: âÂÂâÂÂâÂÂâÂÂTistaâÂÂâÂÂGolakganjâÂÂ. The Assam Mail used to run on this route. But with the partition of India in 1947, railways in Assam got delinked from that of the rest of India. Indian Railway took up the Assam Link Project in 1948 to build a metre-gauge rail link between and . Assam was connected to the Indian railway system in 1950. In the mid 1960s, the first broad gauge line was laid in the area from to . The FakirgramâÂÂGolakganj-Dhubri line was opened in September 2010 after conversion to broad gauge.
Up to the sixties there was a railway link from Cooch Behar to via Golakganj. It was then known as the Assam Line Railway Service. It also connected East Pakistan, even after partition. However, collapse of the rail-cum-road bridge over the Gadadhar in the seventies ended that link. The line became operable in 2012 after the bridge was rebuilt and the track laid again as broad gauge, entirely through Indian territory. DhubriâÂÂNew Jalpaiguri Inter-city Express via New Cooch Behar was introduced in February 2012. The - line was completed in 2024 & now acting as a alternate line from to via & avoiding .
Note: The map alongside presents the position as it stands today (2020). The international border was not there when the railways were first laid in the area in the 19thâÂÂ20th century. It came up in 1947. Since then, it has been an effort to live up to the new realities. The map is 'Interactive' (the larger version) â it means that all the places shown in the map are linked in the full screen map.