Mymensingh Junction Railway Station ময়মনসিংহ জংশন রেলওয়ে স্টেশন | ||||||||||||||||
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Passenger train station | ||||||||||||||||
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General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | Mymensingh Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 24°45′12″N90°24′37″E / 24.7534°N 90.4104°E | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Bangladesh Railway | |||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Narayanganj–Bahadurabad Ghat line Mymensingh–Gouripur–Bhairab line | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | Meter Gauge | |||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Standard (on ground station) | |||||||||||||||
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Status | Functioning | |||||||||||||||
Station code | MYN | |||||||||||||||
Zone(s) | East Zone | |||||||||||||||
Division(s) | Dhaka | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 15 February 1886 | |||||||||||||||
Previous names | Assam Bengal Railway (1886–1947) Pakistan Eastern Railway (1947–1971) | |||||||||||||||
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Mymensingh Junction Railway Station is a railway junction located in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. [1] [2] [3]
The demand for jute was increasing all over the world. For the purpose of meeting that growing demand, there was a need for better communication system than the existing communication system to supply jute from Eastern Bengal to Port of Kolkata. Therefore in 1885 a 144 km wide meter gauge railway line named Dhaka State Railway was constructed to bring raw jute to Kolkata mainly by river which connects Mymensingh with Narayanganj. [4] The railway junction in Mymensingh opened on 15 February 1886. [5] In 2021, the Minister of Railways announced the modernization of the railway junction at a cost of ৳200 crore. [6]
Mymensingh Junction railway station is known to be unsanitary and a hotbed of pickpockets. [7] The station is also allegedly occupied by ticket black marketers. [8]