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Train to Dhaka

A. Roy Chowdhury


Ties on track: Maitree Express, the first bi-weekly passenger train from Kolkata to Dhaka after 1965, entering Bangladesh on Monday, the Bengali New Year day from the Gede border in Nadia district, West Bengal. The first plan to run a train from Calcutta to Dacca was conceived by Eastern Bengal Railway Company in 1856 and by 1862 there was a train link from Sealdah terminus in Calcutta to Kusthia (at present in Bangladesh). It was extended up to Goalandu and Dacca. The regular overnight passenger train service was continuing before Partition in 1947. After Partition, the limited train services continued up to 1965 in the then East Pakistan.

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