Barsoi Junction railway station

Barsoi Junction railway station serves Barsoi town and katihar city in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a major and very important railway station having stoppages of premium trains like Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express and New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express.

History
Assam Behar State Railway extended the -wide metre-gauge railway from Parbatipur, now in Bangladesh, to Katihar in 1889. The connection was truncated with the partition of India in 1947, and the line now runs up to Radhikapur, near the Bangladesh border.

In 1948–50, as a part of the Assam Rail Link project, the Fakiragram–Kishanganj sector was connected to the North Eastern Railway network at Barsoi. The railway lines in the area started being converted to broad gauge from the early 1960s.

Amenities
Barsoi railway station has a four-bedded retiring room.

Trains
Following major trains are available from Barsoi Junction railway station:


 * Howrah–New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express
 * New Jalpaiguri–Howrah Shatabdi Express
 * Kamakhya–SMVT Bengaluru AC Superfast Express
 * Kamakhya - Ranchi Express
 * New Jalpaiguri - Chennai Superfast Express
 * Kamakhya - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail
 * New Tinsukia - Chennai Tambaram Express
 * Silghat Town - Chennai Tambaram Nagaon Express
 * Silchar–Secunderabad Express
 * Dibrugarh - Mumbai LTT Express
 * Sealdah - Alipurduar Kanchan Kanya Express
 * Kolkata–Radhikapur Express
 * New Jalpaiguri - Digha Paharia Express
 * Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Terminal North East Express
 * Kamakhya - Udaipur City Kavi Guru Express
 * Howrah - Radhikapur Kulik Express
 * Siliguri Town - Jogbani Intercity Express
 * Siliguri Junction - Katihar Intercity Express
 * Siliguri Junction - Balurghat Intercity Express
 * Dibrugarh - Lalgarh Avadh Assam Express
 * New Jalpaiguri-Rajendra Nagar Capital Express
 * Kamakhya - Rajendra Nagar Capital Express
 * New Jalpaiguri–Malda Town Express
 * Sealdah–Agartala Kanchanjunga Express
 * Sealdah–Silchar Kanchanjungha Express
 * New Jalpaiguri–Amritsar Karmabhoomi Express
 * Kamakhya - Puri Express
 * Alipurduar - Delhi Sikkim Mahananda Express
 * Guwahati - SMVT Bengaluru Kaziranga Superfast Express
 * Sealdah - New Alipurduar Teesta Torsha Express
 * Siliguri - Radhikapur Express
 * Guwahati - Okha Dwarka Express
 * Kamakhya–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express
 * Dibrugarh - Deogarh Express
 * Kishanganj - Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express