Samuktala Road Junction
Indian Railways junction station
General information
Location	National Highway 31C, Distt: Alipurduar, West Bengal, PIN-736208 India
Coordinates	26°29′02″N 89°38′08″E / 26.4838°N 89.6355°E / 26.4838; 89.6355
Elevation	48 metres (157 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	North East Frontier Railway
Line(s)	New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section of Barauni–Guwahati line New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	At ground
Parking	Not required
Bicycle facilities	Not available
Other information
Station code	SMTA
Division(s)	Alipurduar
History
Opened	1950
Location
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Samuktala Road Junction is a railway junction station in Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History

With the partition of India in 1947, railway links of Assam and the Indian part of North Bengal, previously passing through eastern Bengal, were cut off from the rest of India. The Assam Rail Link project was taken up on 26 January 1948 and the first train ran on the route on 26 January 1950. The project was a 142-mile-long (229 km) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge line linking Fakiragram with Kishanganj.^[1] The route was converted to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge in 2003–2006.^[2]

The broad-gauge line from New Jalpaiguri to Samuktala Road was added in the 1960s.^[3]