Lock down Day No- 55
Video No- 55
Traversing the Meter Gauge and Broad Gauge Dayang Viaduct onboard Hill Queen and Agartala Rajdhani Express respectively.
The meter gauge viaduct was 4 kilometres south of the Lower Haflong railway station whereas the broad gauge one is just after the New Haflong railway station.
The...
more... Lumding-Silchar/Agartala meter gauge section was closed for gauge conversion to broad gauge in October 2014. It was opened for goods traffic till Silchar in March 2015 and later till Agartala in stages.
I was lucky enough to travel on both meter gauge and broad gauge section from Lumding to Agartala. As one can see in the video the broad gauge takes a different alignment from the meter gauge one.
This hill section comes under Lumding division of Northeast Frontier Railways.
Videos shot on 7th September 2014 and 7th June, 2019.