Jasidih–Dumka–Rampurhat line

Jasidih–Dumka–Rampurhat line is a single 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge track from Jasidih in Deoghar District in Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand state to Rampurhat in Birbhum District of West Bengal state.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee approved the railway line and laid the foundation stone in 1999.

The 71 km segment from Jasidih Junction to Dumka via Deoghar became operational on 12 July 2011.

The railway line will serve devotees once a direct train start running between Deoghar and Sultanganj via Bhagalpur, Banka.

A daily passenger train runs between Jasidih and Banka which operates once a day, except on Sundays.

The railways have proposed a Jasidih–bypass line after construction of which trains from Bhagalpur and Dumka can proceed to Asansol and Dhanbad without locomotive reversal at Jasidih, also saving time for the passengers.

[5] A 116-kilometre (72 mi)-long new railway line was proposed to be built between Deoghar & Sultanganj in Bihar in the budget of 2007-08.

The 32-kilometre (20 mi) Hansdiha–Godda section was inaugurated on 8 April 2021 and a Humsafar Express runs weekly from Godda to New Delhi.

This line is considered important to connect the Godda district in the Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand with the rest of India.

Jasidih Dumka Rampurhat line
Jasidih Dumka Rampurhat line