LUMDING AND BRICKFIELD COLONY

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LUMDING MEMORIES: BRICKFIELD COLONY, CROSSING GATE AND RAILWAY STATION

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YOUBAK SANGHA, BRICKFIELD COLONY	LUMDING RAILWAY STATION; It has been taken from the "old foot-over bridge" that has been demolished and a new foot-over bridge has been constructed.
RAILWAY MESS FOR BACHELORS; NFR, BRICKFIELD COLONY, LUMDING	CROSSING GATE MARKET, BRICKFIELD COLONY, LUMDING
CHUNA PATTY & BRICKFIELD COLONY MARKET IN FRONT OF YOUBAK SANGHA	CROSSING GATE; AUTO RICKSHAW STAND; LUMDING, ASSAM
LUMDING RAILWAY STATION; It has been taken from the "old foot-over bridge" that has been demolished and a new foot-over bridge has been constructed.	CROSSING GATE; AUTO RICKSHAW STAND; LUMDING, ASSAM

LUMDING RAILWAY STATION AT NIGHT

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Lumding Railway Station

Lumding Railway Station

Lumding Railway Station

NORTHEAST FRONTIER RAILWAY AND LUMDING

The Northeast Frontier Railway has its historical roots in the former Assam Railways & Trading Company, Assam Bengal Railways and Eastern Bengal Railways. The Assam Bengal Railways had the largest contribution to make in the formation of the present-day N. F. Railway.

Assam Railway & Trading Company laid the first Railway line in Assam as early as 1882 between Amolapatty (Dibrugarh) and Dinjam Stream – a length of 15 miles for transportation of tea and extended upto Makum collieries at Margherita in 1884. The Company also established the first passenger Railway system in Assam under the name Dibru Sadiya Railway. The Eastern Bengal Railway constructed the sections Haldibari - Siliguri, Barsoi - Kishanganj, Manihari – Katihar- Kasaba and opened these
sometime before 1900. They expanded the network to other sections namely, Hasimara - Alipurduar, Gitaldaha Bamanhat, Golakganj - Amingaon, Rangiya - Rangapara & Dhubri during the period 1900-1911. The Assam Railway & Trading Company, the Eastern Bengal Railway and the Assam Bengal Railway which was also operating in the Barak Valley region, were merged during World War II and came to be known as the Bengal Assam Railway. Thereafter, some of the Company-owned Railways namely, Bengal Dooars Railway, Jorhaut Provincial Railway, Chaparmukh Silghat Railway and Katakhal Lalabazar Railway etc. were merged with the Bengal Assam Railway system.

With the partition of India in August 1947, the Bengal Assam Railway was bifurcated according to the political boundaries, leading to the formation of the Assam Railway with its headquarters at Pandu. In 1948 the Darjeeling - Himalayan Railway was also taken over by the Government of India and merged with Assam Railways.

The partition of the country and formation of the erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) led to complete severance of communication with the State of Assam from the rest of India. It was restored with the completion of the Assam Rail Link Project in January 1950.

During the reorganisation of Railway zones in 1953, Assam Railway and Avadh - Tirhut Railway were merged to form the North Eastern Railway with headquarters at Gorakhpur. The N. F. Railway system was carved out of the North Eastern Railway on 15th January, 1958 and based at Maligaon, Guwahati at the foothill of Nilachal 'Parbat', the abode of Goddess Kamakhya.

N. F. Railway is the smallest of the 9 zones on the Indian Railways, but has the unique distinction of serving as many as ten States of the Indian Union, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram. Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal. Besides, it also serves as a rail-head for the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Bhutan and provides interchange facilities with Bangladesh Railway.

Administration :

NF Railway has got 5 Divisions viz. Katihar – covering the states of Bihar, Sikkim and Part West Bengal including the prestigious Darjeeling –Himalayan Railway, World Heritage Site, stretching for a route length of 370 Km in BG, 406 Km. in MG and 87 Km in NG; Alipurduar Jn. – covering the states of Assam and West Bengal, stretching for a route length of 218 Km in BG and 477 Km. in MG; Rangiya - covering the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam stretching for a route length of 319 Km in BG and 652 Km. in MG; Lumding– covering the states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura stretching for a route length of 360 Km in BG and 529 Km. in MG; and Tinsukia – covering the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh ans Nagaland, stretching for a route length of 490 Km in BG and 21 Km. in MG.

LUMDING STATION

Lumding Railway Station is a place that always remains closed to my heart. It was the place I had to cross atleast twice daily as I had to cross it to go and return from school. It was the place we used to eat Dosa, I remember. A small town life can be exciting enough if simplicity remains there in heart. I now thinks those were the golden days of my life.



I still remember when me, Kanai, Chandu (Prasenjit Das), Raghu (Biplob Nandy) used to go to wheeler in the station everyday in the evening, to buy a copy of Assam Tribune.



Lumding Station is the first lesson of communication to most of the children of Lumding still now, as train is the only means of communication leaving aside the erratic and painful bus service to nearby areas like Diphu, Lanka, Hojai, Nagaon etc. So, we are the generation who grew up knowing that Indian Railways is the safest, luxurious and the only mode of travelling out of station!
Railway Station is a place where one would find people from different segments, classes of society, having altogether different viewpoints about society! So-called "High Class" (read railway officials and businessmen of the town) to labour class people from Gadhi Nagar to "Coolie Patty", Lumding Station is for everyone.



For many of us it the place where we had got our first lesson of psychology.
I still remember my first journey through "PAHAR LINES" i.e. the NC HILLS section of NFR ( Northeastern Frontier Railways). The scenic route passes through beautiful hill valleys, miles after miles of wild bamboo orchards, wild banana orchards. The beauty of NC Hills is beyond any description. The platform no.1 is alloted for MG Train (Meter Gauze train) towards Silchar through "pahar lines". So many memories are there with Lumding Station that it is impossible to forget it's charm.



REALLY HOME REMAINS ALWAYS A SWEET HOME AND I MISS LUMDING SO MUCH.



"ONCE A LUMDINIAN.....
FOREVER A LUMDINIAN..."


...subhankar karmakar

LUMDING : A JOVIAL TOWN

LUMDING: A Vibrant Rail Township

Lumding is the biggest and most important railway junction of the Northeastern Frontier Railway commonly known as NFR. It is also the biggest railway division of NFR as well as the best Railway Township. Like all the other places of North-East, Lumding is a place of multi-Ethnicity. Most of the people are multi-lingual, although majority of the people are migrated Bengali, the main spoken languages are Bengali, Assamese, Hindi & English besides Nepali, Karbi and Nagamese. Its a small railway township, always bustling with new vigour. The economy is based on the service sector and the main contributors are railway employees residing in the several tiny colonies. The main hindrance to the development is the lack of industry, which in turn increases the magnitude of unemployment.But, it is trying hard to cope up with the pace of rapid modernisation of visual media ( mainly TV ). When we were child we had never seen anything whose sole purpose were simply entertainment, but present generations are more smarter than us. Cable TV, mobiles have really transformed Lumding, and made the people of Lumding to be accustomed with the modern life-styles. More schools, a modernized college having a B+ status from NAAC, a pool of talented youngsters, a rich tradition of cultural superiority, Lumding has produced to national level playback singers through SA RE GA MA PA Tv program (talent hunt show).

HEALTH CARE FACILITY:
Although lumding has a fairly large population, still the people of Lumding, did not have any access to modern health-care system, as the dilapidated health unit in Uttar Lumding is basically a first-aid unit, and unable to provide any substantial treatment. Railway Hospital is the standalone guard as the civil one is nothing but a dirty, small basic medical unit. Moreover, few doctors are there to serve, although with these scarce resources and with the help of some experienced nurse, delivery cases are also handled, despite the fact that they haven't any permission to allow complicated cases like delivery cases. So, in the health care segment Lumding has practically nothing as a state infrastructure......... Moreover, every year Assam becomes a victim of severe flood, but nothing has been done to alleviate this perennial problem. Some of the private venture capitalists wanted to established a private super specialty hospital, but since then nothing had been done to get the required clearance from the health ministry.Despite all of its shortcomings,it is an undeniable fact that LUMDING is a living town,growing up slowly but steadily to achieve its goal. It provides a strong school system that contains some good schools. It has the presence of several good banks having core banking facility.

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