New Bongaigaon
City
Nickname:  City of Railway
New Bongaigaon Location in Assam, India Show map of Assam New Bongaigaon New Bongaigaon (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 26°28′41″N 90°33′40″E / 26.478°N 90.561°E / 26.478; 90.561
Country	India
State	Assam
Region	Western Assam
District	Bongaigaon
Zone	1
Bongaigaon Municipal Board	29 September 1989
Founded by	Government of Assam
Government
• Type	Mayor–Council
• Body	Bongaigaon Municipal Board
• Deputy Commissioner	S.P Nandi, (IAS)
• Superintendent	N Gogoi, (IPS)
Area
• City	874 km2 (337 sq mi)
Elevation	36 m (118 ft)
Population
• City	174,810 (incl Bongaigaon)
• Rank	117th in India
• Metro	109,863 (3rd)
Languages
• Official	Assamese, English, Bengali
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	783381
Telephone code	03664
Vehicle registration	AS-19
Literacy	91.56 (2011)%
Legislature type	Railway Town
Planning agency	9
Sex ratio	912 per 1000 male (Census 2011) ♂/♀
Distance from Delhi	1,750 kilometres (1,090 mi)
Distance from Mumbai	1,900 kilometres (1,200 mi)
Distance from Guwahati	165 kilometres (103 mi) west
Climate	Semi-Arid (Köppen)
Precipitation	1,717.7 millimetres (67.63 in)
Avg. annual temperature	26 °C (79 °F)
Summer temperature	38 - 40 °C
Winter temperature	33 - 28 °C
Website	newbongaigaon.nic.in
† Estimated as on 2014

New Bongaigaon (/bɒŋˈɡaɪɡaʊ/ ^ⓘ; is a borough of the City of Bongaigaon in the Indian state of Assam. The City included or new part of municipal board of Bongaigaon. The borough consists a major railway junction, i.e. New Bongaigaon Railway Junction which serves greater population of Bongaigaon City and it's nearby districts. Its a major railway station of entire NFR zone. Northeast Frontier Railway's biggest railway workshop is also located in New Bongaigaon along with its large quarter complex.

Railways

Bongaigaon falls under the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of the Indian Railways. There are two stations in Bongaigaon - New Bongaigaon railway station (2nd largest railway junction of Assam state) and Bongaigaon (old) station. Major trains serving Bongaigaon with major cities are Guwahati Rajdhani Express, Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Express, Saraighat Express, Brahmaputra Mail, North-East Express, Guwahati Bangalore Express, Guwahati Ernakulam Express, Kamrup Express. It is the largest station in Western Assam after Guwahati. According to 2012 budget, New Bongaigaon Jn. is considered to be the Adarsh Station of India.

Construction of the 265 km (165 mi) long 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge Siliguri-Jogihopa line, between 1963 and 1965, brought broad gauge railways to Assam. It also was the reason for setting up the New Bongaigaon railway station.^[1]

New railway track from New Bongaigaon to Guwahati was commissioned in 1984.^[2]

Saraighat Bridge opened in 1962, initially carried a metre gauge track, which was later replaced by broad gauge.^[3]

Electrification of New Bongaigaon Rly. Jn.

Electrification of the Barauni-Katihar-Guwahati line was sanctioned in 2008.^[4] In the document on Vision 2020 – A Blue Print for Railway Electrification Programme, in the list of ongoing projects the entire route km (836) is shown as balance work as on 1 April 2010.^[5] The entire electrification project is scheduled to be completed by October, 2015.^[6]