Advance train ticket sale begins July 20

This Star file photo shows passengers struggling to board a packed train while others climb its rooftop at risk to life at a railway station in Lalmonirhat district.

Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance tickets from July 20 to facilitate holidaymakers ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Advance tickets for five days before the Eid will be sold between July 20 and 24, Railways Minister Mujibul Haque said while addressing a press briefing at his Secretariat office in the capital this morning.

The railway will sell return tickets on July 27, the minister said.