Train movement between Brahmanbaria’s Akhaura and India’s Agartala will formally start on the newly built 12.24-kilometre dual gauge rail tracks on November 1.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will jointly inaugurate the trail track virtually.
Md Abu Jafar Miah, project director of the rail line project, said a train with empty bogies successfully completed its journey from Akhaura’s Gangasagar to India’s Nishchintpur on a trial basis on Monday noon.
Initially, goods-loaded trains will operate between the countries and later passenger trains will remain functional on the rail tracks, he said.
On this occasion, customs activities at Gangasagar railway station began, the project director said.
According to the sources, construction work of the 12.24km path project between the countries began in July of 2018.
Of them, there is only 6.78km in Bangladesh end and it took around five years to complete the work instead of one and a half years on different grounds including the Covid-19 pandemic.
