North Bengal Tour/Jhalong/Jaldhaka/Part 1/Kamrup Express/Khagraghat road KGLE to New Jalpaiguri NJP

About Ramendra Sundar Tribedi :

Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was
Born on 22 August 1864
Kandi, Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India)Died6 June 1919 (aged 54)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (Kolkata, West Bengal, India) Occupation : Bengali Author, Teacher, Nationality : Indian, Education : Ripon College, Kolkata. Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was a renowned Bengali author. He is known for his works in Bengali poems, and stories. He is one of the most popular poets of India. Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was born at Kandi, Murshidabad in West Bengal on 22 August 1864. His father's name was Govindasundar and his mother's name was Chandra Kamini. From his childhood, Tribedi was a successful student. After obtaining his B.Sc. degree (coming first in the exams), he competed for the prestigious Premchand Roychand Scholarship with physics and chemistry as his subjects. He won the scholarship (1888).
Tribedi was a teacher at and, later, the principal of the Ripon College as well as Surendranath Law College of Kolkata.
Ramendra Sundar Trivedi died on 6 June 1919 at Kolkata in West Bengal.

About Khagraghat Road Railway station :
Khagraghat Road is a railway station on the Howrah–Bandel–Katwa–Azimganj line in Baharampur city and is located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
In 1913, the Hooghly–Katwa Railway constructed a 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge line from Bandel to Katwa, and the Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa Railway constructed the 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop. With the construction of the Farakka Barrage and opening of the railway bridge in 1971, the railway communication picture of the area completely changed.

Location

KhagraGhat Road railway station lies on the Western Bank of River Bhagirathi (Ganga) in the Radharghat locality of Berhampore city. People from Murshidabad district board from this station to reach North Bengal.
The railway station has currently 4 platforms .

Malda Town railway station is a railway station on the Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line under Malda railway division of Eastern Railway zone. It serves the city of Malda in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the largest as well as busiest railway stations of Eastern India. Indian Railways upgrade this station with modern facilities.

Malda railway division is one of the four railway divisions under the Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. The major facilities available are Waiting rooms, retiring rooms, computerised reservation facility, Reservation Counter, Vehicle parking etc. There are seven platforms in Malda Town railway station. The platforms are interconnected with three foot overbridges. Escalators are installed at each of the platforms. There are twenty-five lines of which 7 are along platforms are rest are loops.
New Jalpaiguri Junction railway station (station code NJP) established in 1960, is an A1 category broad gauge and narrow-gauge railway station under Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is the largest as well as the busiest railway junction of Northeast India. This Junction is among the three railway stations which serves the city of Siliguri, the largest metropolis of the North Bengal. The other two stations are- Siliguri Junction and Siliguri Town. New Jalpaiguri junction ranked 10th cleanest railway station in India in 2016 survey and came among the top 100 booking stations of Indian railway.

Around 1949, Siliguri Junction station, a new station north of the old Siliguri Town railway station, came up with several metre-gauge lines converging on it. In addition there was the narrow gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway running from Siliguri Town station to Darjeeling via Siliguri Junction. The Assam Rail Link Project, completed in 1950, linked the railways in Assam, with a metre-gauge line to Kishanganj. The line running across North Bengal, spanned the Teesta, Torsha, and Sankosh rivers.

In the early 1960s, Indian Railways started changing over from metre gauge to broad gauge and built a new 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge station south of Siliguri Town station. Since the new station was located in Jalpaiguri district, it was named New Jalpaiguri. By 1964, New Jalpaiguri became the most important railway station in the area.

New Jalpaiguri railway station has two double-bedded air-conditioned (AC) retiring rooms, six double-bedded non-AC retiring rooms, one three-bedded dormitory and one twelve-bedded dormitory. Free High speed Google RailWire WiFi is available at this station. It has IRCTC and other private restaurants.

source : Google & Internet

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