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New
Jalpaiguri
Junction
railway
station (station
code
NJP)[4] established
in
1960,[5] is
an
A1
category[6] broad
gauge
and
narrow-gauge
railway
station
under Katihar
railway
division of Northeast
Frontier
Railway
zone.
It
is
the
largest
as
well
as
the
busiest
railway
junction
of
Northeast
India.
This
junction
is
largest
among
the
railway
stations
which
serves
the
city
of Siliguri,
the
largest
metropolis
of
the North
Bengal.
The
other
stations
are- Siliguri
Junction, Gulma, Bagdogra, Matigara, Rangapani and Siliguri
Town.
New
Jalpaiguri
junction
ranked
10th
cleanest
railway
station
in
India
in
2016
survey[7] and
came
among
the
top
100
booking
stations
of
Indian
railway.[8] New
Jalpaiguri,
as
a
railway
station
serves
as
the
entry
point
to North
Bengal, Sikkim,
other
countries
like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and
the
seven
northeastern
states
(Assam, Arunachal
Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya).
New
Jalpaiguri
Junction
acts
as
a
connecting
base
for
the
Northeastern
states
to
the
Indian
mainland.
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