Railway to sell advance Eid tickets from June 2
The Bangladesh Railway is going to sell all advance intercity train tickets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha online from June 2 on different schedules...
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Sale of advance train ticket for Eid-ul-Azha to begin June 2
The sale of advance train tickets for Eid-ul-Azha holidaymakers across Bangladesh will start online from June 2....
BR analysing freight, cargo facilities to make future plans
Bangladesh Railway authorities are analysing its container, freight and cargo transportation facilities for taking future plans...
Govt shouldn鈥檛 let train services operation out to private hands
THIS is a good piece of news that the railway authorities, which run keeping to the Railways Act 1890, are updating the legislation understandably to keep pace with the changed context of the modern world...
Draft rail law allows private train service
The railway authorities have prepared the draft Bangladesh Railway Bill, 2024, by keeping a provision for letting private companies own rolling stock to carry passengers, goods, and parcels...
Delayed implementation of projects a manifold burden
THE Bangladesh Railway鈥檚 failure to complete the Khulna-Mongla railway project and start train services 14 years after the project was taken and seven months after it was inaugurated shows once again the sorry state of project implementation...
Bangladesh Railway to buy 200 carriages from India
The railways authorities on Monday inked a contract with an India-based manufacture and supply company to procure 200 broad gauge carriages for the...
Bangladesh Railway suffers from lack of policy attention
THE development of Bangladesh Railway has not been a priority of successive governments, as evident in the inadequate resource allocation and deflected policy attention from it. A large majority of its rolling stock, including locomotives, passenger carriages, freight wagons, and relief cranes...
Govt presses on costly project for electric railway
Bangladesh Railway is pressing on with a costly plan for introducing electric traction system along Narayanganj-Dhaka-Chattogram and...
BR burdened with old聽rolling stock
The Bangladesh Railway is burdened with a large number of locomotives, carriages, wagons and relief cranes running long past their...
Bangladesh Railway lacks regard for public safety
THE Bangladesh Railway has proved negligent about the use of substandard materials for repairs, disregarding public safety. A photograph that...
Spl 鈥榤ango train鈥� from June 10
The West Zone of Bangladesh Railway will launch a 鈥榮pecial mango train鈥� on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route via Rajshahi from June 10 for the...
Wood, bamboo used in Teesta rail bridge repair work
The Bangladesh Railway is using wooden and bamboo sticks instead of iron equipment at rickety Teesta Rail Bridge in Lalmonirhat, posing high risk of fatal accidents...
NCPSRR urges Bangladesh Railway to maintain existing ticket prices
The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads, and Railways, a civil society group, has opposed Bangladesh Railway's decision to eliminate fare discounts starting May 4, which will lead to a significant increase in train fares by 20 to 30 per cent for journeys exceeding 100 km....
Railway authorities mustn鈥檛 increase train fares
THE Bangladesh Railway鈥檚 decision to increase fares on long routes is worrisome as people are already burdened with unprecedented inflation. The authorities have decided to increase the fares by cancelling the distance-based rebate...
Long route train fares to rise from May 4
After eight years, the Bangladesh Railway is going to increase the fares on long routes from May 4...
Number of passengers increase, some trains run slightly late
The number of passengers on the trains increased on Monday while some trains on the northern routes of the country ran slightly behind schedules on the day during the journeys of holidaymakers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.....
Holidaymakers begin Eid journey
The journeys of the holidaymakers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr began amid traffic congestion on highways and exit points in the capital city on Friday....