New Maynaguri railway station

New Maynaguri railway station is one of two railway stations which serve Mainaguri in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, the other being Maynaguri Road Railway Station. The station lies on the New Mal–Changrabandha–New Cooch Behar line and New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line of Northeast Frontier Railway. The station lies on Alipurduar railway division.

Trains

Major trains:

• Chennai Tambaram - Silghat Town Nagaon Express
• Sealdah–Agartala Kanchenjunga Express
• Sealdah–Silchar Kanchenjunga Express
• Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express via Guwahati
• Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North
• Sealdah-New Alipurdiar Teesta Torsha Express
• Delhi-Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Mail
• Sealdah-Bamanhat Uttar Banga Express
• New Jalpaiguri - Bongaigaon Express

Accident

On 13 th January 2022, Thursday, train number 15633 Bikaner–Guwahati Express, travelling from Bikaner Junction to Guwahati railway station got derailed between New Damohani and New Maynaguri railway station near Siliguri in West Bengal at around 4:30pm in the evening.

The railway station

New Maynaguri railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code NMX.

History

Construction of the -long broad gauge Siliguri–Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, created broad-gauge railway links in North Bengal and Assam.

References

External links

• Trains at New Maynaguri