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The Lumding–Dibrugarh section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting Lumding and Dibrugarh. The long railway line is functional in the Indian state of Assam. It is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway. ==History== The Assam Railway and Trading Company Limited was incorporated in 1881. The first metre gauge locomotive was put into service in Assam in 1882. The long line from Dibrugarh steamer ghat to Makum was opened to passenger traffic on 16 July 1883. The objective of opening an isolated railway in upper Assam was to link the tea gardens and coalfields to the steamer ghats. In the latter part of the 19th century, the Dibru-Sadiya railway was long.〔Urban History of India: A Case-Study by Deepali Barua, pages 79-80, ISBN = 81-7099-538-8, Mittal Publications, A-110 Mohan Garden, New Delhi - 110059〕 The wide metre gauge railway track earlier laid by Assam Bengal Railway from Chittagong to Lumding was extended to Tinsukia on the Dibru-Sadiya line in 1903.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】History of Tinsukia Division )〕 The Mariani-Furkating line was operated by Jorhat-Provincial Railway.〔 The project for the conversion of the Lumding–Dibrugarh section from metre gauge to wide broad gauge was completed by the end of 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Lumding Dibrugarh GC Project )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lumding–Dibrugarh section」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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