Naugachia railway station

25°20′10″N 87°02′45″E / 25.335991°N 87.045837°E / 25.335991; 87.045837Owned byIndian RailwaysOperated byEast Central RailwayLine(s)Barauni–Katihar sectionConstructionStructure typeStandard on ground stationParkingYesBicycle facilitiesNoOther informationStatusFunctioningStation codeNNA Division(s) SonpurHistoryPrevious namesEast Indian RailwayServices

Preceding station	Indian Railways			Following station
Kharik towards ?		East Central Railway zone Barauni–Katihar section		Katareah towards ?

Location
Naugachia railway station Location in Bihar

v t e Barauni–Katihar section
Legend
km km to Muzaffarpur & Darbhanga 146 Samastipur to Barauni 138 Bhagwanpur Desua to Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul & Jainagar lines 131 Angar Ghat 124 Narhan to Mokama–Barauni section 119 Rusera Ghat Barauni 00 116 Mabbi NH 28 111 Naya Nagar Bihat 05 108 Barepura Tilrath 08 101 Hasanpur Road Begusarai 15 97 Sashan Lakho 23 95 Garhpura Danauli Phulwaria 28 91 Somra Pranpur Lakhminia 33 86 Salauna Sanaha 44 79 Imli Sahibpur Kamal 48 75 Paharaja Gangur Umesh Nagar 54 71 Olapur Khagaria 61 Mansi 69 NH 31 Chedbanni 74 Maheshkhuntt 80 Badlaghat Gauchari 84 Koshi River Pasraha 92 Dhamara Ghat Bharat Khand 98 Koparia Narayanpur 104 Simri-Bakhtiarpur State Highway 58 Baba Raghuni Thana Bihpur 112 Saharsa Karu Khirhar Nagar Saharsa Kacheri Baijnathpur Panchgachhia Methai Garh Baruwari Dauran Madhepura Veena Ekma Budhma Supaul Bhairopatti Kadampura Deenapatti Tharbitta Murliganj Baijnathpur Andoli Rupauli Saraygarh Janki Nagar Narayanpur Murli Harapatti Raghopur Rambisanpur NH 31 Pratapganj to Lattipur Lalitgram Kharik 120 Chhatapur Road Naugachhia 128 Narpatganj Katareah 139 Debiganj Koshi River Chakarha Kursela 145 Jogbani Bakhri 155 Bathnaha Forbesganj Bihariganj Raghubans Nagar Dholbazar Barhara Kothi Gogipothia Sukhshena Simraha Aurahi Haldia Bihar Sukhasan Kothi Araria Araria Court Banmankhi Kushiargaon Sarsi Satar Alinagar Tola Jalalgarh Krityanandanagar Gharbanali Purnia Court Kasba Karhagola Road 162 Purnia NH 31 Rautara Semapur 173 Dalan Katihar 185 Manshi Kumaripur to Katihar–Siliguri line Manihari Teznarayanpur to Kumedpur km
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Naugachia railway station (station code: NNA) is on the Barauni–Katihar section of the Sonpur railway division and serves the town of Naugachhia in the Indian state of Bihar.

Geography

The station lies on the northern side of the Ganges and traverses the Kosi basin. In Bihar, the Kosi is widely referred to as the "Sorrow of Bihar" as it has caused widespread human suffering over the centuries through flooding and frequent changes in course. Over the last 250 years, the Kosi has shifted its course over 120 kilometres (75 mi) from east to west. In August 2008, it picked up an old channel it had abandoned over a century ago near the Nepal–India border, and caused enormous damage in a wide area covering several districts. The breach in the Kosi embankment which caused the devastating flood in 2008, was repaired in 2009 and the river has since been flowing along its original course.^[1] The floods continue and threaten even the Barauni–Katihar tracks. The entire region portrays "a bleak picture of broken houses, flattened fields and ravaged lives, signs of all the havoc the previous floods and land erosion wreaked here earlier."^[2]

Trains

Major trains

1. New Delhi–Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (Via New Tinsukia)^[3]
2. Lokmanya Tilak Terminus–Kamakhya AC Superfast Express
3. Katihar - Delhi Junction, Champaran Humsafar Express
4. Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Express^[4]
5. Kamakhya - Delhi Northeast Express
6. Agartala - Deoghar Weekly Express
7. Guwahati-Jammu Tawi Amarnath Express^[5]
8. Guwahati - Jammu Tawi Lohit Express^[6]
9. Dibrugarh–Chandigarh Express
10. New Jalpaiguri -Rajendra Nagar Capital Express^[7]
11. Kamakhya-Patna Capital Express^[8]
12. Dibrugarh - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express^[9]
13. Kamakhya - Jodhpur, Bhagat Ki Kothi Express
14. Alipurduar - Delhi Junction Mahananda Express^[10]
15. Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express^[11]
16. New Tinsukia–Rajendra Nagar Weekly Express
17. Guwahati - Bikaner Express^[12][13]
18. Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
19. Guwahati - Barmer Express
20. Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express^[14]
21. Kamakhya - Dr. Ambedkar Nagar Express^[15]
22. Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express^[16]
23. New Jalpaiguri - Ranchi Weekly Express
24. Anand Vihar Terminal - Jogbani Seemanchal Express
25. Katihar Junction - Amritsar Amrapali Express
26. Kishanganj - Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express
27. Muzaffarpur - SMVT Bengaluru Weekly Express
28. Saharsa - Sealdah Hate Bazare Express
29. Katihar - Tatanagar Express

Electrification

Electrification of the 809 kilometres (503 mi) long Barauni–Katihar–Guwahati section was sanctioned in 2008.^[17] As of 2011, work on electrification of Barabanki–Gorakhpur–Barauni–New Jalpaiguri route was in progress. Adequate funds have been provided in the budget for 2011–12 to take up work in the New Jalapiguri–New Bongaigaon–Guwahati section.^[18] The section is fully electrified. Most of the Delhi and Amritsar-bound trains run on electric locomotives. Amrapali Express was the first train to run on electric locomotive, then after Rajdhani Express, North-east Express, Purvottar Sampark Kranti Express, Seemanchal Express, Tripura Sundari Express have electric engines.

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