Simaluguri Junction railway station is a railway station on the Lumding–Dibrugarh section. It is located in Sivasagar in the Indian state of Assam. Its code is SLGR. It serves Simaluguri town. The station consists of three platforms. Simaluguri Junction is the main railway station in the Sivasagar district of Assam.
History The station lies on Amguri-Simaluguri section on West side, Simaluguri-Dibrugarh section in North and Simaluguri-Sripuriagaon section in East. All these lines come under the Lumding–Dibrugarh section. The Simaluguri-Naginimora section is undergoing Gauge Conversion. Once completed it will connect Sivasagar with Nagaland. Total length of the project is 16.9 kilometres.
Survey for 344 km (214 mi)-long new line from Jorhat to Sibsagar was completed in 2010–11 which will reduce the distance between Jorhat and Dibrugarh.
See also
Sibsagar Town railway station
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