Amid the British period all track associations with Assam and North Bengal were through the eastern piece of Bengal. From 1878, the route course from Kolkata, then called Calcutta, to Siliguri was in two laps. The primary lap was a 185 km travel along the Eastern Bengal State Railway from Calcutta Station (later renamed Sealdah) to Damookdeah Ghat on the southern bank of the Padma River, then over the waterway in a ship and the second lap of the trip, which was a 336 km meter gage line of the North Bengal Railway that connected Saraghat on the northern bank of the Padma to Siliguri.
The 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge over the Padma came up in 1912.[2] In 1926 the meter-gage segment north of the scaffold was changed over to expansive gage, along these lines the whole Calcutta - Siliguri course got to be wide gauge.[1]parbatipur came up as a station on the Calcutta-Siliguri course.
Once Parbatipur came up as a route station on the Chilahati-Parbatipur-Santahar-Darshana Line in 1876, it turned into an inside of further line advancement. There were two advancements, one eastward and the other westward. North Bengal State Railway opened a meter gage line to Kaunia in 1879. Two limited gage lines were laid by Eastern Bengal Railway from Kaunia to Dharla River. The Kaunia Dharla line lines were changed over to meter gage in 1901. The Kaunia-Dharla line was stretched out to Amingaon in 1908. The Assam Behar State Railway began assembling westward in 1884 and by 1889, Parbatipur was associated with Katihar in Bihar.[3]
With the part of India,railway connections outside Bangladesh were lost yet Parbatipur kept on being a critical route intersection.
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