With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, previously passing through eastern Bengal, were cut off from the rest of India.

The project was a 142-mile-long (229 km) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge line linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj.

[1] The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.

[2] The broad-gauge line from New Jalpaiguri to Samuktala Road was added in the 1960s.

This article about a railway station in the Indian state of West Bengal is a stub.