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Why is the word New added to a few station names? 2 Answers Why is the word New added to a few station names? Mar 20 2015 (20:13) Blog Post# 1402539-0 Guest: 744c5963 Added by: soumitra.chawathe^~ Mar 21 2015 (12:00) Can somebody tell my that why there is 'new' attached to the names of various stations of the northeast like new jalpaigudi,new cooch behar etc ??? Historically, most of the railway lines in North Bengal and Assam were MG. But following gauge conversion, the new stations were either located in close vicinity of the erstwhile MG stations or were parallel to them, in places where both gauges continued to co-exist. This is the primary reason for the their nomenclature as NEW ****** . But Joydeep Roy, our AMBASSADOR ADMIN from North Bengal can hopefully shed more light on this. |