Special A/C train service for Eid holidaymakers
Bangladesh Railway (east zone) will arrange a special air-conditioned train service 'Eid Special' for three days from September 28 on Dhaka-Chittagong route to help the homebound holidaymakers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Thirteen A/C coaches, imported four months' earlier among 30 such coaches from China and have been lying at the railway workshop, will be included in the special service charging Tk 380 per person.
Sources said after the service, the coaches would be taken back to the workshop again since the launching of a regular train is yet to be decided due to lack of required locomotives.
The special train service will begin from Chittagong at 4:20pm on September 28 while it will leave Dhaka at 6:20am for Chittagong every day.
Railway authority imported 30 new A/C coaches manufactured by China Machinery Export and Import Corporation under a Tk 106-crore project titled 'Procurement of A/C coaches' to introduce two new inter-city trains between Chittagong and Dhaka with a view to providing better service for the commuters.
Earlier, 50 coaches were imported in three phases last year from the same company.
Railway authority claimed that most of the coaches were added to four inter-city trains on the same route including Subarno Express, Turna Nishitha, Mohanafar Probhati and Mohanagar Godhuli replacing old ones.
Divisional Engineer Ibrahim Khalil said they tried to continue the service, but it is yet to be decided due to shortage of locomotives.
“We will run the special train hiring locomotives from any of the ongoing services like Subarno or Probhati,” he added.
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