Cooch Behar railway station


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

History

built a 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 wide metre gauge in 1910. Northeast Frontier Railway converted the Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line to wide broad gauge in 2007.

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.