Maligaon, Feb 22: Mr Rajen Gohain, Minister of State of Railways today flagged off the 15629 / 15630 Nagaon Express from Nagaon station in presence of large gathering. The train will run between Silghat Town and Tambaram every week. Mr Rupak Sarmah, MLA of Nagaon, Mr Sanjive Roy, General Manager of N.F. Railway, Mr Ram Bhadadur Rai, Divisional Railway Manager of Lumding Division alongwith other senior railway officials were present.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajen Gohain said that people of four central Assam districts of Nagaon, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Sonitpur will now be able to travel to Chennai for medical treatment without going to Guwahati for catching trains. On the other hand, the train will help tourists coming from different parts of the country on a visit to Kaziranga National Park.
Tourists can now get down at Jakhalabandha which is a short distance from the famous park. He informed that efforts are being made to remove all bottlenecks in railway operations. Four Manned Level Crossing gates in Hojai – Habaipur section will soon be replaced with Road Over Bridge of Limited Height Subway to improve punctuality and increase in safety aspects.
He also informed that Northeast is getting special attention for overall development of railway infrastructure. The entire BG route from Bongaigaon to Lumding has been sanctioned for doubling and doubling work of Lumding – Hojai section is almost complete. He assured the people that more trains will run from Nagaon to places like Mumbai and Delhi and after completion of the development work of Silghat Town, more long distance trains will start from Silghat Town station as well.
It may be mentioned here that train no 15629 / 15630 which was earlier running between Tambaram and Guwahati has been extended to run from Silghat Town to provide a direct link from Silghat to Tambaram to Chennai fulfilling a long standing demand of people of Central Assam.
Silghat station is being developed as a Terminal station and very recently a direct train from Silghat to Kolkata was also flagged off. Train number 15630 will leave from Silghat Town every Friday at 08-30 am to reach Tambaram at 08-50 pm on Sunday.
During return journey train number 15630 Tambaram – Silghat Express will leave from Tambaram at 09-45 pm on Monday to reach Silghat Town at 09-45 am on Thursday.
