It is the largest railway station in Northeast India in terms of area covering approx 400 Bighas of Land.

In her book Urban History of India: A Case Study, Deepali Barua writes: "Dibrugarh was made the district headquarters in 1840.

The 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre-gauge line from Dibrugarh steamer ghat to Makum was opened to passenger traffic on 16 July 1883.

The Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Express was named in memories of Sri Swami Vivekananda which was introduced by Former Railway Minister Smt Mamata Banerjee on 19 November 2011.

The train runs for 4,278 km (2,658 mi) across the states of Assam, Nagaland, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in 75 hours.