Sabroom

সাব্রুম
Indian Railways station
Sabroom railway station platform
General information
LocationNH 8, Sabroom, South Tripura district, Tripura
India
Coordinates23°00′51″N 91°41′55″E / 23.014062°N 91.6987492°E / 23.014062; 91.6987492
Elevation33 metres (108 ft)
Owned byIndian Railways
Operated byNortheast Frontier Railway
Line(s)Lumding–Sabroom section
Platforms3
Tracks4
Construction
Structure typeStandard (on-ground station)
Platform levelsAt ground
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesNo
Other information
StatusSingle diesel line
Station codeSBRM
Zone(s) Northeast Frontier Railway
Division(s) Lumding
History
ElectrifiedNo
Services
Preceding station Indian Railways Following station
Manu Bazar
towards ?
Northeast Frontier Railway zone Terminus
Location
Sabroom is located in Tripura
Sabroom
Sabroom
Location in Tripura
Sabroom is located in India
Sabroom
Sabroom
Location in India

Sabroom railway station, code SBRM, is a railhead railway station which serves Sabroom town in South Tripura district of Tripura state of India.[1] It is located near Feni River which serves as Bangladesh–India border.

History

The Sabroom railway station is the terminus railhead of the 113 km long 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad-gauge AgartalaSabroom railway line which comes under the Lumding railway division of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is a single line without electrification. On 3 October 2019, the first DEMU serving Agartala–Sabroom performed its inaugural run after the construction of railway line was completed. In 2016, 43 km long segment from Agartala to Udaipur near Mata Tripura Sundari temple was completed. On 3 October 2019, the remaining Udaipur-Sabroom segment was also completed.[2][3][4][5]

Station layout

G Street level Exit/Entrance & ticket counter
P1 FOB, Side platform, No-1 doors will open on the left/right
Track 1
Track 2 toward →
Track 3 toward →
FOB, Island platform, No- 2 doors will open on the left/right
Island platform, No- 3 doors will open on the left/right
Track 4 Under Construction

Future connectivity

The rail link from South Tripura district will be extended to Chittagong Port and Cox's Bazar deep water port in Bangladesh, as agreed by the prime ministers of the both countries, by rehabilitating the railway link from Santir Bazar railway station in India to Feni Junction railway station in Bangladesh. Maitri Setu bridge near Sabroom was opened in 2021 to connect the "Belonia, IndiaParshuram, Bangladesh road and rail crossing checkposts". Compared to the 1,880 km (1,170 mi) long, congested "Chicken's Neck" Siliguri Corridor, this will provide a shorter and more affordable route, and it will also provide the alternative strategic redundancy to Kaladan Multi-Modal project route if there is a war with China.[6]

See also

References

  1. "SABRM/SABROOM". India Rail Info.
  2. First Commercial Broad Gauge Freight Train Arrives In Tripura
  3. BG railhead reaches Udaipur amid cheers Archived 2016-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 'Feni bridge will end Tripura’s isolation'
  5. Tripura's BG rail progress 'on right track'
  6. As Smart as Sittwe: Going North-East by South-East, First Post, 2019.
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