List of railway stations in Nepal
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Stop on Nepal Railways in Khajuri
Railway stations in Nepal lists the various railway stations in Nepal.
Nepal is sparsely served by railways although new railways are planned. A number of branch lines of Indian Railways come close to the border with Nepal, but only the line from Jaynagar goes into Nepal proper, extending to Janakpur. See Nepal Railways.
Contents
Stations served
Existing
- Jaynagar, Jaynagar (India) gauge conversion - break-of-gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)/762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
- Khajuri, Khajuri Chanha
- Mahinathpur, Thadi Jhijha
- Shaheed Sarojnagar, Duhabi
- Baidehee, Itaharwa
- Perbaha, Deuri Parwaha
- Janakpur, Janakpur
Closed
Former
- Raxaul (India) to
Birganj (Nepal) and Amlekhganj, Nepal 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) [1]
Proposed
The plan to link Nepal includes building:
- 16 km track from Naxalbari to Kankarvitta
- 15 km track from Jogbani to Biratnagar[2]
- Jogbani to Biratnagar - extension under survey in 2008.
- Madhubani
- Jaynagar
- - convert to broad gauge
- Janakpur [3]
- - extend
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Timeline
- 1924 : Raxaul - Birgunj - Amlekhgunj Metre Gauge Track started being laid down by Martin's of Calcutta.
- 1927 : Raxaul - Birgunj - Amlekhgunj Track started its operations for freight transport.
- 1937 : Jaynagar - Janakpur Narrow Gauge Track started operating for public transport under the name Janakpur Railways, lately renamed to Nepal Railways.
- 1990 : Raxaul - Birgunj - Amlekhgunj Track finally shut down.
- 1994 : 6 8-coach NG rakes and 5 ZDM-5 diesel locomotives from SER's Nagpur division handed over to Nepal Railways for operations in Jaynagar - Janakpur Track.
- 1998 : 2 ZDM-5 diesel locomotives handed over to Nepal Railways.
- 2004 : Kolkata - Raxaul - Sirsiya Broad Gauge started operations as a Inland Port.
- 2007 : The Pipavav Rail Corporation submitted a proposal for constructing the entire 174 km route from Birgunj to Kathmandu, no progress made so far.
- 2008 : Three other proposals for rail connectivity to Nepal were considered and had preliminary engineering surveys done: New Jalpaiguri (India) to Kakrabitta (Nepal) via Panitanki (46.3 km); Nepalganj Road (India) to Nepalganj (Nepal) (12.1 km); and Nautanwa (India) to Bhairahawa (Nepal) (15.3 km)
- 2010 :* Line proposed to Nepal from India.[4]
- 2011 : Metro trains proposed in Kathmandu valley, feasibility studies to be carried out as declared in the Budget session.
