Sabroom railway station

Sabroom
Indian Railways station
Sabroom railway station platform.
General information
Location	NH 8, Sabroom, South Tripura district, Tripura India
Coordinates	23.014062°N 91.6987492°E / 23.014062; 91.6987492
Elevation	33 metres (108 ft)
Owned by	Indian Railways
Operated by	Northeast Frontier Railway
Line(s)	Lumding–Sabroom section
Platforms	3
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Standard (on-ground station)
Platform levels	At ground
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Other information
Status	Single diesel line
Station code	SBRM
Zone(s)	Northeast Frontier Railway
Division(s)	Lumding
History
Electrified	No
Services
Preceding station Indian Railways Following station Manu Bazar towards ? Northeast Frontier Railway zone Silchar–Sabroom section Terminus
Location Sabroom Location in Tripura Show map of Tripura Sabroom Location in India Show map of India

Sabroom railway station (Station code:- SBRM), is a 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 Agartala–Sabroom 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, India–Parshuram, 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]

Trains

The following trains are available from this railway station:

• Sealdah–Sabroom Kanchanjunga Express
• Sabroom Agartala DEMU

See also

• Udaipur, Tripura
• Indian Railways
• Agartala railway station
• Lumding–Sabroom section
• Tripura#Transport
• Silchar–Sabroom section
• List of railway stations in India

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.

External links

• Sabroom railway station at the India Rail Info

• Indian Railways site
• Indian railway fan club
• "Sabroom railway station" (Map). Google Maps.