Bamanhat railway station


Bamanhat railway station serves Bamanhat in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History

Before partition of India in 1947, there was a rail link to Lalmonirhat Junction, now in Bangladesh, through Geetaldaha and Mogalhat. Even in 1955 the line was there when there were talks between India and Pakistan for resumption of rail links.
Up to the 1960s there was a railway link from Cooch Behar to Dhubri via Golokganj. It was then known as the Assam Line Railway Service. The links were disturbed with bridges being washed away. The entire area had metre gauge tracks.
Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line to Broad gauge in 2007. The Alipuduar-Bamanhat branch line up to Geetaldaha was earlier part of Cooch Behar State Railway. The Geetaldaha-Bamanhat sector was part of what was called the Assam Line Railway Service.
Prior to the partition of India, the prestigious Assam Mail used to travel from Santahar to Guwahati.

Station

It is located near the India-Bangladesh border and handles around 15,000 passengers daily.