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The Northeast Frontier Railway abbreviated as N F Railway is one of the 16 railway zones in India. Headquartered in Maligaon, Guwahati in the state of Assam it is responsible for rail operations in the entire Northeast and parts of West Bengal and Bihar. It is divided into 5 divisions:
- Alipurduar Railway Division
- Katihar Railway Division
- Lumding Railway Division
- Rangiya Railway Division
- Tinsukia Railway Division
also two Workshops are there in this railway for carriage and wagon POH at
- Dibrugarh
- New Bongaigaon
Each of these divisions is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager, and workshops are headed by Chief Workshop Manager, a
Senior Administrative Grade officer of the rank of Joint Secretary to
Government of India.
The departmental setup at headquarters level and divisional setup in
the field assists the General Manager in running the railways. Various
departments namely engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal &
telecom, operations, commercial, safety, accounts, security, personal
and medical are headed by a Senior Administrative Grade / Higher
Administrative Grade officer, provide technical and operational support
to the divisions in train operations.
The area of Northeast Frontier Railway operations is characterized by
exceptional beauty and at the same time by some of the most arduous
terrain. This difficult terrain limits the rail network expansion, and
the only state with a decent rail network is Assam. The network is not broad gauge
in many parts and the rail lines are antiquated with speeds at some
sections being limited to a maximum of 30 km/h (19 mph). Before the
Saraighat bridge was constructed, passengers had to get down on the Amingaon side of the Brahmaputra
and take a ferry across to Pandu Junction from where they could resume
their journey. Majority of the tracks has been converted to BG and
electrification is in process starting from Katihar till Guwahati.
Railway service was established in Tripura in 1964,[2] but it was limited to Dharmanagar and Kailasahar. The northeastern state capital came on India's railmap with the advent of the railways in the subcontinent in 1853 and the foundation stone of the 119 km kumarghat-Agartala railway project was laid in 1996 by the former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda. Following which finally made railways to entered in Agartala the capital city of Tripura after a slightly more than a decade, with as passengers became more predominant in the region and railways
was a mark of success in the state. Agartala expects a better and faster
trains in the upcoming decade.
