• Source: Cooch Behar railway station

Cooch Behar railway station (also referred to as Old Cooch Behar railway station) serves Cooch Behar in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.




History



Cooch Behar State Railway built a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm)-wide narrow-gauge railway from the southern bank of the Torsa opposite Cooch Behar town to Gitaldaha, a station on the tracks of Eastern Bengal Railway in 1894. Cooch Behar town was connected in 1901 after a bridge was built on the Torsa. It was converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre gauge in 1910. Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2007.




Infrastructure and amenities


The railway station is equipped with basic passenger facilities such as a waiting room and toilet. The station offers free Wi-Fi provided by RailTel. In 2023, a 'One Station One Product' store was opened to provide a market for local artisanship.




Trains


Six trains stop at Cooch Behar railway station. Both up and down trains are mentioned below.

07513/07514 Siliguri-Bamanhat DEMU Special
05465/05466 Alipurduar Junction-Bamanhat Passenger Special
15467/15468 Siliguri-Bamanhat Intercity Express




Railway heritage museum



The more than a century old Cooch Behar railway station has been accorded a heritage status and a new building was built to accommodate a Railway Heritage Museum. The railway museum is a minuscule version of the National Rail Museum located in New Delhi and is based on the architecture of the Madan Mohan temple in Cooch Behar.
There are four open galleries in the museum with different themes related to Indian Railways and Cooch Behar State Railway. The external garden area has numerous instruments and machinery related to railways. A coach restaurant was also inaugurated near the museum which was later closed due to operational reasons. The coach is now placed next to the railway station as a display.




References






External links


Cooch Behar travel guide from Wikivoyage
Official images of Cooch Behar Railway Museum (Archived)

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• Stasiun kereta api Dhubri
• Daftar kode pos di India
• Cooch Behar
• Cooch Behar railway station
• New Cooch Behar Junction railway station
• Cooch Behar Palace
• Cooch Behar Airport
• Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency
• Cooch Behar district
• Cooch Behar (disambiguation)
• Cooch Behar State
• Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency