Another pair of trains named ‘Tourist Express’ will run on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route from January 10, said the Bangladesh Railway on Monday.
The train will leave Dhaka at 6:15am and reach Cox’s Bazar at 3pm. It will leave Cox’s Bazar at 8pm and reach Dhaka at 4:30am.
According to the railway, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the name of the train. The train will be operated by coaches newly imported from Korea.
The distance from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar is 346 kilometres. The fate of the new train will be the same as the previous train.
On this route, the fate of the Shovon chair of the intercity train has been fixed at Tk 500. The air-conditioned (AC) chair fare is Tk 961. The AC seat fare is Tk 1,150, and each passenger has to pay Tk 1,725 for sleeping.
Train services on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route resumed on December 1, last year.
