[1] The portion of the system which fell within the boundary of East Pakistan was named as Eastern Bengal Railway.

[7] In December 2009, work on gauge conversion from Silchar to Jiribam started which was finished in early 2016 and goods services resumed.

[8] Freight trains started to run on the Silchar–Jiribam segment from 21 March 2016.

Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged off the Jan Shatabdi Express between Agartala railway station and Jiribam railway station connecting two northeastern states, Tripura and Manipur on 8 January 2022.

Jiribam–Imphal line is likely to be completed by December 2023 as per August 2021 status update,[9] which will be extended to Moreh on the India–Myanmar border and then to Kalay (also called Kale and Kalemyo) in Myanmar to form part of the ambitious Trans-Asian Railway.