Another trial train run on Padma Bridge Mawa-Bhanga route

News Desk :
A trial train run was again conducted on the Mawa-Bhanga rail route via the Padma Bridge on Friday.

It started at 7:30am and the train travelled this route four times, gradually increasing its speed.

Sources said that on its first run, the trial train departed the Bhanga station in Faridpur and reached the Mawa station in Munshiganj by 9:06am, maintaining a speed limit of 60 kilometres per hour.

It then left the Mawa station for Bhanga again at 9:30am at 80 kilometres per hour.

At 10:40am, the train departed from Bhanga for Mawa, accelerating to a speed of 100 kilometres per hour.

Finally, at 11:30am, it returned from Mawa to Bhanga, reaching a speed of 120 kilometres per hour.

Brigadier Saeed Ahmed, project manager of the Mawa-Bhanga section of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project, said the trial train run is part of the final preparations for rail operations in the Dhaka-Bhanga section of the project.

Earlier, a train crossed the Padma Bridge for the first time after its inauguration on September 7, travelling from Dhaka to Bhanga.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will officially inaugurate train services on this Dhaka-Bhanga route on October 10.

Through this, the long-desired dream of the people of 21 districts of the southwestern region of the country to travel to and from Dhaka by train is set to be fulfilled.