The Crime Desk: Taking into account the demand of passengers during the four-day consecutive holiday, including the Durga Puja holiday, along with the weekend, a special train will run on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route for seven days from today.
Bangladesh Railways has decided to run two pairs of regular intercity trains on the Dhaka-Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar route for four days from October 10 to 13, along with one more passenger special train. The schedule has been published. Railways has decided to run the special train from today considering the demand of passengers from all over the country to Cox’s Bazar on a four-day holiday.
According to railway sources, as the Durga Puja holiday is added to the weekend, the four consecutive days of government holiday will start today. At the dawn of winter, Cox’s Bazar is crowded with tourists at this time. For that reason, it has been decided to run a special train on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route from October 10 to 13, considering the needs of the passengers.
Officials of the commercial department and transport department of the railways said that the demand for train tickets of passengers traveling to Cox’s Bazar for four consecutive days is over lakhs. Tickets expire instantly as soon as they are opened online.
Chittagong Station Manager Md. Moniruzzaman told the media that the special train will leave Kamalapur station at 11 p.m. on Thursday, October 10 and reach Cox’s Bazar at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow, October 11. Again, the train will leave Cox’s Bazar at 1:40 p.m. tomorrow, October 11, and reach Dhaka’s Kamalapur station at 10:00 p.m. In this way, the train will transport passengers on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route every day from 10th to 13th October. This special train going to Cox’s Bazar at night will have 518 seats, and the Dhaka-bound train will have 634 seats during the day. The train will transport passengers from Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka every day from October 11 to 13.
On December 1, 2023, the intercity train Cox’s Bazar Express started passenger transport on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar-Dhaka route. From January 1 this year, another intercity train, ‘Tourist Express’ started transporting passengers. These two trains stop at Chittagong, and two coaches (Snigdha and Shobhan chairs) are allocated in the train for Chittagong passengers.
A special train is running from Chittagong to Cox’s Bazar besides the Dhaka-Coxabazar intercity.
Some officials of the railway building said that the demand for train tickets from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar is very high due to continuous holidays. Railways has taken the initiative to launch special train services due to the demand of passengers for regular train tickets.
